Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

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On 08/16/2010 03:16 AM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> 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

Haha, yeah, except that it could also allow someone else to recover your
mail cache instead.

- -Jeff

> 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).


- -- 
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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