> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Copeland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 30 January 2003 22:47 > To: Dave Page > Cc: Tom Lane; PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List > Subject: Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System > > I have lost entire directory trees (and all associated data) > on NTFS before. NTFS was kind enough to detect an > inconsistency during boot and repaired the file system by > simply removing any and all references to the top level > damaged directory (on down). Sure, the file system was in a > known good state following the repair but the 2-days to > recover from it, pretty much stunk!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it doesn't go toes up, just that in my experience (going back the NT3.1) it's not a daily occurance. > You also compared NTFS with ext2. That's not exactly fair. > Better you should compare NTFS with ext3, XFS, JFS, ReiserFS. > It's a better, more fair comparison, as now we're talking > about the same category of file system. I realise the differences, but I don't currently use ext3, xfs, jfs or reiserfs on any of my production boxes so can't make any observations about them. I did, less than a month ago, lose and entire pg data directory on an ext2 partition though :-( Regards, Dave. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
