joe sloan njktmsusacom carlos e r wrote monday 20080218 0840 0800 joe sloan wrote unfortunately reiserfs burned power failure situation distro many years ago sure hardware wasnt fault software bug destroyed reiserfs partition suse 91 year 2004 issue record one suse lists interesting hashing bug introduced xattr stuff patched reiser3 kernel code interesting code changes always carry risk seem dodged particular bullet however diagnosed squashed particular kernel bug hasnt reappeared would really factor whether use reiserfs especially since bugs affecting filesystems one time joe wed 06 aug 2008 150346 0800 opensuse ext3 check forced frustration