On Dienstag 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > so use whatever you want, get a nice cheap dlt from ebay and let a > > cronjob write to it. No 'lazy' problem. Very secure. > > I live in Brasil, and due to huge taxes, poor infrastructure and the > currency exchange ratio, computer stuff is far more expensive than in > the US.
it is more expensive in europe too ;) > And then you have to factor that the average Brazilian is much > poorer than the average US citizen. and because of that I talked about dlt. A nice, used dlt 35/70 will work for another couple of years, is not very expensive (anymore), and very robust. > > But anyway, I know I must make backups, but I still want a robust > filesystem with good software support (such as data recovery > utilities). Could you give me your suggestion for the safest > filesystem for a desktop user that only uses 3,8G of his 54G root > partition? I care about speed, but I think that my usage pattern does > not stress the filesystem (if what Valerie Henson says is true). xfs, reiserfs, ext3 all work fine. I would stay away from xfs with unstable electricity. I would also stay away from jfs, because almost nobody uses it. I have used reiserfs in the past, I am using reiser4 now. But I don't recommend r4. It is working great for ME. But that doesn't mean that it is the right choice for anybody else.
