In my long-ago experience, reiserfsck --fix-fixable did absolutely nothing to improve a broken filesystem, and --rebuild-tree was the only way to get anything out. Maybe you got very lucky?
Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums
Posted Dec 14, 2011 12:15 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576)
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>Maybe you got very lucky?
Maybe I did. Or maybe you got unlucky. Most of the people commenting on it though *never tried*; they just heard something bad via hearsay and parrotted it, and that just gets to me.