On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > reiserfs has barriers turned on by default - which makes it a bit slower > > but a lot safer for data. ext3 has them turned off by default - ext3 devs > > don't care about data - only speed. You turn on barriers, performance > > goes down by 30%. > > I read an article about that, and if I recall correctly the assumption > was that the likelihood of data loss occurring due to the barriers > issue was negligible. I have no expertise to decide on that matter, > but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by > default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop > usage), no?
fedora turns on 4k stack - well knowing that it kills xfs. Do you want to rephrase your question? > > Somewhat offtopic: > What do you suggest for me? I care about data safety, but am too lazy > to make frequent backups, so filesystem robustness and availability of > data recovery tools is pretty important; so use whatever you want, get a nice cheap dlt from ebay and let a cronjob write to it. No 'lazy' problem. Very secure.
