On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:24:37PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:24:04PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: > > 2) Re both resierfs and xfs, I've seen about equal numbers of > > responses on any number of mailing lists: > > > > "pick-a-fs" ate my lunch, hard drive, and system. > > "pick-a-fs" is the greatest thing since sliced bread. > > > > You pays you money (or time), you takes you chances. > > Pretty wise viewpoint, I'd say. And basically what I was trying to > get across. If you value your data, don't use filesystems that have > regular reports of eating other people's data for lunch. :-) > Boring, I know... but safer. (GRIN)
I'm now leaning more towards ext3. My previous system (Debian unstable) ran ext3 without any problems, and was plenty fast. At this point I value reliability/stability over performance. As was said above, reiserfs looks like it's either feast or famine. So now I'm going to ask the converse question: has anyone experienced unexplained data corruption with ext3? By the way, I'm not trying to start a "my fs vs your fs war". I just saw that blurb about reiserfs corruption in the Gentoo FAQ and (1) wondered if it's due to user error or flaky software; and (2) if the latter, what is the likelihood of corruption? Thanks to everyone for the interesting feeback! Matt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list