Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Rafa Grimán <rafagriman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi :)


El Tuesday 04 March 2008, Basil Chupin escribió:
> Rafa Grimán wrote:
> > El Tuesday 04 March 2008, Carlos E. R. escribió:
> > > The Tuesday 2008-03-04 at 00:50 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > Guys were telling me way back to use ext3 in preference to reiserfs
> > > > while the kernel mailing list was dealing with a wave of ext3
> > > > corruptions. All my reiserfs corruptions then were actually due to
> > > > failing IDE ports on motherboards (x4).
> > >
> > > I had a reiserfs corruption caused by software.
> >
> > So have I. And I've also had corruption on JFS partitions. No flame war
> > intended 0:)
> >
> >    Rafa
>
> So, what does all this mean? Does it mean that the filesystems available
> for Linux OSs - such as openSUSE - are no better than those used in M$?


I can't answer that. It's been 13 years since I last used MS-Windows. Maybe 
we've been using these filesystems when they weren't really production ready? 
Maybe we've been using them for what they were not meant?

I ask this last question because I've been using ext3 for / and XFS for /home 
since they first came out. Never had a problem with any of them. Never had 
long fsck times with ext3 (my / is 10 GB).

Maybe the problem is not only the filesystem, but the hardware it's running 
on: bad drives (aka cheap drives), bad connectors (I've suffered this a lot 
of times), bad controllers, old hardware (I've suffered this also), ...

I can only talk about what I've suffered/experienced. I've had data loss with 
JFS and reiserfs on new (and not cheap) hardware. When I used ext3 and XFS on 
the same hardware ... no issues :) Of course, that is me. Others have had 
other problems.


> (Earlier today I read about what is happening to Hans Reiser re his
> trial on the charge of allegedly murdering his wife. One thing which
> most affects this discussion about filesystems is that Namesys is still
> in business and is still developing v4 of reiserfs.)
>
> Ciao.


   Rafa


-- 
"We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love."

rgriman@xxxxxxxxx
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx