Re: Filesystem stability?

[Thomas Steffen <steffen.list.account@gmail.com>]

On 7/12/05, Mark Ferlatte <ferlatte@cryptio.net> wrote:
> I've heard rumours that some of the Linux filesystems aren't as stable
> as they should be on AMD64; in particular, I've heard of bad things
> happening with JFS and XFS.

I filed this bug ages ago:

http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=amd64&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=amd64&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=amd64&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=amd64

Basically the log format is not compatibly between 32bit and 64bit. 

1) nobody is looking into bug reports any more at SGI

2) there are bugs

If I were to choose again, I would use reiserfs. It has the backing of
a major Linux player, and I am sure bugs for AMD64 would be fixed by
them. And reiserfs4 looks very promissing, although I would certainly
consider it experimental at this stage.

Thomas