On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > Evan Root [cellarr...@gmail.com] wrote: >> Just so you all know, >> This thread makes me want to try out Ext on Openbsd reeeaalll bad. > > It receives virtually no effort, and its performance sucks. Although, > linux ext2fs is very fast because they skip a level of integrity (perhaps > like mounting ffs with async)
It is exactly like ffs/async, but with a very smart fsck. I think Ted T'so has been tweaking that thing for years. I've used ext2 for a very long time, even after ext3 appeared (don't much care for the journaling idea) and I've never lost a filesystem or even a file due to a crash. Yes, I know that it's theoretically possible that fsck won't be able to puth Humpty back together again, but it hasn't happened to me. I think part of it is the reliability of Linux -- crashes are extremely rare -- and I have my desktop systems on UPSes. So fsck has gotten few opportunities to fail.
