>> p.s. reiserfs was a godsend to me. On a squid server I have, using ext2fs
>> I had to re-format the partision about once every 6 weeks because it would
>> get all messed up. I've had reiserfs on it for the past 7 months and
>> havn't had one problem (I had no UPS on it, so a power falure was a hard
>> crash, and ext2 kept messing stuff up)
> That's bad news, but I seem to recall kernel notes somewhere that in certain
> versions of the kernel, ext2 was screwed up. It also seems to not like certain
> hardware.
> Also, if it's taken you an hour to fsck a 4 GB partition, seems like you're
> either running a dog-slow machine, or you've got hardware problems anyway. It
> takes me about 20 minutes to run fsck on 25 GB worth of drive space on an AMD
> K6-2/266 with 64 MB of RAM.
What average size was on that 25 GB partition ? It's pretty normal to need
1 hour to e2fsck 4 GB partition with average file size in just few KBs ...
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