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:
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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@skype.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org