Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs
Once upon a time nate said...
>
> drawbacks to reiserfs:
> - it does not handle bad blocks, so if your disks are of questionable
> quality you may have trouble if they start mapping bad blocks in the area
> where data is stored.
This is also a drawback to XFS - I think. I'm guessing that my harddrive
mapped a new block to cover for a bad block (since I was getting bad
blocks), and while XFS did not cause a panic, processes would get stuck
after entering a particular directory on the filesystem.
The man page for fsck.xfs says:
NAME
fsck.xfs - do nothing, successfully
The authors of XFS seem to think that because it is a journalling
filesystem, a filesystem repair tool is not necessary.
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