Michael Weissenbacher wrote:

>> If your filesystem is ReiserFS (which was unfortunately default for some
>> Slackware versions) switch to ext3 (or something else) ASAP. I had many
>> problems with corruption and ReiserFS, and they all vanished after we
>> switched to ext3.
> Well, as always, YMMV. I've never had problems with reiserfs + firebird. But
> i've moved to XFS now since reiserfs's future seems unclear.

I forgot to write that, but ReiserFS problems are really related to the
'power failure' corruption that OP was having. At the company were I
worked we did an extensive 'power failure' testing of Firebird on
ReiserFS and Ext3, and ReiserFS would simply fail to recover in very
high % of the cases. Some details about it in my blog:

http://swoes.blogspot.com/search?q=reiser

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Milan Babuskov
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