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Re: Best file system



On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:09:25PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> I have suffered massive data loss with reiserfs and heard many
> complain about similar problems. I strongly suggest *not* to use
> reiserfs.

me too.

also, while reiserfs may have a lot of nice features AND ideas, it is
very much a moving target. it gets updated and changed regularly, and
new versions aren't always backwards-compatible with older versions.

> I suggest XFS if you have a server on a UPS, ext3 otherwise.

yep. seconded.

since servers *should* always have a UPS, that translates to a
recommendation for XFS and to ignore ext3 :-)

craig

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craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)



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