Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2136 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans Witvliet wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:30 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
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> > Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > > The Monday 2007-09-10 at 10:03 -0400, bcoffey@ wrote:
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> > > > I am about to install openSuSE 10.2 on two new computers and see that the
> > > > 10.2 default file system is ext3 and not Reiser.  I'd like some advice as
> > > > whether to accept the ext3 default or to go with Reiser as I have in the
> > > > past.
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> > > The reiserfs will likely not get improvements, that's all. If it has 
> > > worked for you in the past, you can just keep using it as safely as 
> > > before. I use it.
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> > In my experience, reiserfs is not safe. It frequently fails
> > (corruption and/or file loss) in the event of improper shutdown
> > such as power failure or system crash.
> >
> > Conversely, in Iraq, where I experienced frequent power-related
> > shutdowns, and a couple crashes (due to I think, running out of
> > swap space), I never lost a single file using ext3 and xfs.
> >
> >     
> I could be mistaken, but i thought the use of xfs inherrently required
> the use of a no-break power supply, as it holds more data in mem,,,,,
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Both are journalled filesystems, but there seems to be an
implementation error in Reiserfs 3.x, because I had several
fsck failures after power outages.

XFS's journalling mechanism seems (in my experience) to be
much closer to the ideal.  Other people have experienced
losses with XFS, but I'm beginning to believe that those
were hardware related (physical defects on the hard drive),
which currently, a problem to which currently all filesystems
are susceptable.




> Hans
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