-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2007-09-10 at 14:30 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
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 have completely lost partitions in reiserfs, ext3, and xfs. All three of them. Lots of lost data.
And I keep using the three of them. But I will not swear by any of them. I just make backups, because I know I will loose data again. I don't know when, I simply know I will.
This is really FS independent, this will happen on whatever software, hardware, and FS one uses. What would be useful is a real world MTF (mean time to failure) stat as well as performance stats, so one can make decisions about real world reliability as well as performance. What we have is a lot of anecdotal information, but very little one can pin numbers on. As for ext3 until someone fixes the truly appalling performance of the consistency checks (and the default behaviour of firing up those checks periodically), I am sticking with reiser. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG5ktKasN0sSnLmgIRAnzsAKDn1vSHVtbJ15nq2SaLENT+nqxA5QCeNXBM vHHExfBBwfCUx8TBXMXvF9Y= =CB+/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org