On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > I was able to recover much of the data with reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, > but some of the files had part of their content replaced with a string > of null bytes. I heard somewhere that reiserfs is infamous for > replacing file content with a string of null bytes, so maybe this is > indeed reiserfs fault, and not just bad hardware.
no, that is xfs. > So it seems I should not have chosen reiserfs, which has a fame of > being less safe than ext3, and certainly has less software support > than ext3. The next time I format my root partition, I will choose > ext3 (then move to ext4 when it is stable). 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%.
