Hello, On Tue, 01 Oct 2013, Duaine Hechler wrote:
And, with ext3, even with journalling, I would ocassinally loose files.
How? If the file occupies one sector (512 Bytes) on one disk and that craps out under you, that file is LOST! The point now is, how does the FS handle that situation. And I've made the bad experience, that reiserfs craps it's pants in that situation. ext2/3/4 justs shrugs, tells you "that sector is unreadable, accept it, what i could recover is in lost+found and get on with it" and fixes anything that needs fixing and you recover the rest if the file was larger than just one sector. And I use ext3 now (except for the SSD with ext4 and the mentioned newsspool-image) exclusively for tons of files (even locally that's ~14TB, not counting several external drives and the "file-server" with another 10TB or so (7+1 IDE + SSD drive locally, 8+1 IDE on the file-server, several external drives)... .). Oh, I did once lose about 400G-1T files on two 400G (or 500G? Been a while) drives using ext3. But that was because the drives failed. Nothing ANY filesystem could have done about it. The second drive didn't even register in the BIOS anymore (nor the linux kernel on boot, 'twas just dead)... IIRC I could scrape some stuff off the first failed drive. But, again, nothing to do with the FS whatsoever!
Now, that I've doubled my drive space, what is the best - supported - filesystem - that will be the best at NOT losing files.
ext3! With vehemence regarding the implementation and a lot of experience too.
Now, (12.2), is btrfs ?
Partly stable. Still evolving very rapidly. SUSE chose a subset for SLES to support that seems stable enough, but I'd stay with ext3 anyway (or ext4 for SSDs). Actually, ext4 should be by now stable enough for everyday use. -dnh -- Truth's a bitch. -- Beka Valentine, Andromeda 3x04 - "Cui Bono" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org