The thing about Richard's problem is that it's not a result of hard shutdowns as he indicated that this happens at the mount count check not the check after a unclean unmount.
Also in my experience files that are only generally being read from (like his libs) are reasonably safe (even on ext2)
Journaling filesystems are more about protection in regards to writes.
I still think Richard's problem could be more to do with a hardware issue, in that case ext3 or reiser isn't going to save him. Richard, check your physical disks this to me smacks of a growing clump of bad sectors.
On Thursday 31 July 2003 22:44, MJ Ray wrote:
owen.churchcowley owen.churchcowley@ntlworld.com wrote:
I thought my data was safe on Linux but now I know better, I use ext3 but am considering either Reiserfs, or most likely xfs.
I've found that Reiserfs is still a work in progress and isn't that hard to cause data loss on, at least in 2.4.x -- I think others on #alug have said similar things, but I forget who.