Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Tuesday 2008-03-04 at 20:38 +1100, Basil Chupin 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:)
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$?
No.
It simply means that if somebody says there never was a corruption problem with 'X' or 'Y' filesystem, it is just because he didn't find it, but I'm sure somebody else did. I have had corruptions with reiserfs, ext3, and xfs - ie, with all I have used in linux. And of course, also with fat. Ntfs I have used very little.
No filesystem is completely and absolutely safe. That's my main point.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
That now seems to be the case judging by the fact that there are some who have been bitten by each and I suppose it's only natural we'll vote for the one that has worked flawlessly for us. In my case ext3 is the one that really did the dirty on me. The main difficulty with PC's is the lack of basic error analysis and monitoring - smart being the only exception I think, understandable at the price and it's often a drawn out affair finding out if hardware or software caused the problem. They usually go bump without warning. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org