While it was a small step for free software, it was a great one for Debian... And a big surprise for anyone who started Debian installation during this year.

This is a big victory for further psychological development of free software. Making a victory in the fight against yourself is more important than making a victory against someone else.

I think that this tune2fs is a good enough answer in my case because I am using storage systems with hardware RAID (two Siemens/SUN storages and some newer SATA-based).

But, it is true that I forgot for periodical e2fscks... I just have to realize how to find which of 12-20 disks id damaged :)

BTW, I was thinking about XFS and JFS, but I didn't check do they have some useful tool like ext[23] has: mc->undelete.

Whenever I have to install some server, I have a metaphysical question: ext3 or reiserfs?

Ext3 has a lot of advantages, including a possibility to do a fast recovery of files. While it is not needed often, at least once per year I have such demand. At the other side, undelete methods with raiserfs are very problematic.

At the other side, my servers are up usually for a year or more. This means that the most of company's employees may go on one day vacation whenever I want to reboot a machine with 4TB file system.

Any good idea to solve those two issues with one file system?