On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 17:30 +0800, Happy Kamote Foundation wrote: > > 4. Linux has a cornucopia of filesystems supported. Linux, like > > proprietary Unix variants, have supported journaling filesystems for a > > very long time. > > IMHO Linux have yet to have a stable filesystem.
I think this is just flame bait... <fanning the flames>anything that still needs a full fsck to recover from a crash is no stable filesystem for me.</fanning the flames> Kidding aside, soft updates is still a young concept (McKusick's paper on it was released in 2000, with a FreeBSD implementation merged in 2002) which has been into BSD UFS for the last four years. Journalling on the other hand, has been in Unix implementations for a very long time already, and has already proven its worth regarding stability. The likes of ext3, XFS and JFS have been in Linux for roughly the same amount of time, with the latter two being in commercial Unix for an even longer period of time. We all do know of the disadvantages of FS journals though ... which soft updates aimed to skirt around. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
