On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:47, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2003 11:59 pm, Kiran wrote: > > I have had 4 ext3 filesystems just die on me on 3 different machines > > only once was I able to recover by removing the journal, fsck'ing and > > rebuilding it. I won't use it again I'd use ext2(probably the same > > amount of grief in three times the time) before ext3. I have however had > > no problems with reiserfs in the last year or so. And that includes alot > > of unplanned/emergency shutdowns/poweroffs/powerlosses etc on both my > > laptop and desktop. YMMV. > > My problems have been about the same. One Maxtor 13Gb HD, and I have had 3 > ext3 installations of 9.0/9.1 fail in one month. I switched to ReiserFS, XFS > and ext2 and have had no problems in the months since. > > ext3 no more! > > Rob
I've lost plenty of data to ReiserFS (three partitions of my own and one client's PV200 disk array) and haven't lost any to ext3. Repeat after me: it's a filesystem, not a backup. It's software, it's fallible, there is some combination of conditions and events that will make it do The Big Spit all over you. When that time comes, if your only remaining choice is reiserfsck you are likely going to be in a world of hurt. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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