From: Mark South <mark.so...@null.invalid>
Subject: Re: Maximum amount of files per directory
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:07:20 +0000, David Bolt wrote:

>>Reiser has no directory or inodes in the same form as the others,
>>it's more like a database that deliver the result to the OS,
>>so no surprise the directory does not include deleted files.
>>( No lost+found either, only loss is possible 
> 
> Well, I don't know. I've not yet lost anything use reiserfs whereas with
> ext2/3 I've had a lost+found containing several thousand recovered
> inodes.

My experience is exactly the opposite.  The only time I ever suffered
severe data loss after a power surge (nearby lightning strike, surge went
straight through surge protector!) was with reiserfs, whereas ext3 has
always been able to recover cleanly.