Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:30:49PM +0100, Danny Tholen wrote:
>
>>I wonder how *safe* ext3 is.
>>
>
>I wouldn't fall 10 stories on to it and hope to live.
>
>>I accidently filled up my /usr partition, and 10 min later
>>'ls' gave segfaults.
>>
>
>Yeah.
>
>>The file turned out to be corrupted....
>>
>
>Which file? ls? How did you determine it was corrupted?
>
>>No idea if this is related, or even caused by ext3...but suspicious nontheless.
>Anyone else
>>problems with filesystem when partitions full?
>>
>
>Uhm, yeah. Lots of problems when filesystems fill up. :-) Don't
>fill up filesystems! :-) Use LVM -- although even LVM can't "create"
>diskspace that is just not there. :-)
>
>b.
>
>
Oh, and remember ext3 is just ext2 with a journal and a refined recovery
routine. Whenever a file system gets full, anything left sitting in
memory is playing musical chairs with whatever little space is left.
And the end result usually has little to do with the specific file
system type. My personal experience with ext3 (I used reiserfs prior to
8.1) is that it is solid as a rock. My machine hangs up on USB unload
consistantly, and I have NEVER had a problem on reboot. I am using a
combination of ext3 and reiserfs for 100% journaling. I LIKE IT!
