Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 07:22:40PM -0800, Joe Brenner wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
>
> > Reiserfs = designed by one person who has had some kind of problems (I
> > haven't looked into it). If damage occurs (e.g. unclean shutdown), may
> > not be able to fix the damage and loses data.
>
> I've been using resierfs for some time (including on a flaky laptop)
> and I've never seen that problem come up.
> As for the reliability of reiserfs: haven't had any problems with
> it myself. It's hard for me to see how you can sort out
> anecdotal evidence on issues like this: file system failures are
> rare enough that no one person's experience is worth all that
> much (unless you've been administering clusters of hundreds of
> machines with a mixture of different file systems...).
For me, its not anecdotal. I switched to ReiserFS from ext3 when I was
having troubles with ext2/3 fsck messing up. It turned out later to be
a bug that was fixed. In the mean time, ReiserFS also messed up (as in
lost important data in-between daily backups). I then switched to JFS
and had absolutely no problems. I switched back to ext3 based on the
advise of the JFS utils maintainer and, second-hand, IBM.
Doug.
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