filesystems (was Data Recovery: professionals familiar with ext3)

[Erland]

Hi everyone,

Original poster here.

Just thought I'd post back my success! :-) I went and bought a 500GB
external drive from the Sydney shop recommended above, then backed up
the whole corrupt partition (about 300GB) to the new drive, then
issued the command "sudo fsck" on the backup drive, said yes to all
the (scary) prompts - by the end of the process, I thought I'd lost it
all and it hadn't worked... then mounted it and everything was back,
all files recovered! Yay!

To do: file a bug on Launchpad - the thing that corrupted the ext3
Journal was having the drive connected and mounted via firewire during
the upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04.

Cheers,
Erland.

On Jun 12, 11:30 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan <srid... at dhanapalan.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 at 11:23, Paul Gear <p... at libertysys.com.au> wrote:
> > Dave Hall wrote:
> > > ...
> > > There are many issues with ReiserFS, which has only been exacerbated by
> > > the incarceration of its creator.
>
> > Even before Hans Reiser was arrested, reiserfs v3 was still largely
> > unchanged for quite some time.
>
> It was in maintenance mode, with the bulk of Namesys' resources going towards
> the development of Reiser4. It's a shame that it never reached the stage
> where it would be considered usable, because it is a fascinating filesystem.
>
> Now, both ReiserFS and Reiser4 look likely to whither on the vine :(
>
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