Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:33:28 -0700
Linda Walsh <suse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So really -- you may not like it, but zeroing it is the safest thing
> to do (besides being a security requirement).
>
>
> In other words -- other files systems leave those files in a corrupt and
> undefined state.  Are you saying this is preferable?

Of course - if it allows me to recover my config file :-P

Really, I was sometimes happy that old reiserfsck --rebuild-tree basically
dug up all the stuff that ever was written to a disk, after an accidental
rm ;-)

But to put some constructive things onto the discussion: I think that ext3
(or maybe nowadays ext4) is still a reasonable default file system for the
root and boot partitions. For data partitions, I also use XFS, and am
happy with its performance. Until I want to delete a large kernel source
tree. Then I'm always annoyed ;-)

Besides, you cannot install a boot record onto XFS, so you always need a
second partition anyway (Might not be 100% technically correct. You
cannot install grub into it at least).
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

"Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens,
 theory loses. Every single time."         -- Linus Torvalds
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