On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:25:20AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-05-12 09:51:44 +0100 Daniel Silverstone dsilvers@digital-scurf.org wrote:
I've had nought but problems from ext3, and nought but easiness from ReiserFS and XFS.
Counter-point: The ReiserFS systems here have caused enough problems (corrupt files :-( )that they will go away at next upgrade; Hans Reiser is also currently really unhappy at his Debian packaging and
I have had ReiserFS problems in the past which resulted in partitions going *boom* and melting so I trust it about the same as FAT32...
screwing around with the licence. ext3 hasn't caused problems here apart from having to unmount to resize (IIRC... it's not a frequent operation).
I did once have a large ext3 partition suddenly lose all of its contents which was rather worrying as the 100GB of data was not backed up at the time (wasn't my fault, the user had not put the data onto the network as they were in a hurry) although a reboot and a fsck recovered the data we were *very* alarmed at the time as we had 24 hours before the deadline at that point and we just lost 5 days of work... I think that was on kernel 2.4.23 which ext3 was still marked experimental on but the subsequent release squashed that bug and the driver was no longer marked experimental.
Not used XFS on a real live system, but I remember someone inadvertantly converting their /usr to XFS while leaving the XFS tools on it, so take care when converting, of course...
When I first tried XFS it had massive problems related to breaking everything totally but that was a loooong time ago when it had big warnings on it. From what I have read it has come a long way since then so maybe I will try it on the laptop and new machines around here and see what happens.
Adam