"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 04:54 pm, Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Depending on your needs, you'll want to choose XFS, ReiserFS, or JFS. >> > Just stay away from ext3. >> >> Except if you want to save your files after a crash :-) > > I disagree. Journaling in any of the alternatives is at least as good, or > better than journaling in ext3. I've recovered from multiple (read: > dozens) of crashes with my ReiserFS partitions; I never even had to do a > rebuild-tree, the filesystem simply replayed the journal at boot time.
Usually, yes. I used Reiser on one machine for a long time, and it seemed quite stable. However, one time after a crash it wouldn't mount my file system. Rebuild-tree didn't help. I had to restore from my backups. I then converted to ext3, and haven't lost a file since. And never on any machine that runs ext3. I think the repair utility for ext2/3 is ways ahead of the one for reiser. Journalling isn't the point, though. I have used ext2 on several machines since 1994 (still have a 486 with kernel 1.0.9), and have never lost a file from a crash on those. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
