On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Orlando Andico wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Andy Sy wrote: > .. > > Anyone here using IBM's JFS, SGI's XFS, or reiserfs in > > lieu of ext3fs? > > have been using reiser for ages [3 years+], even on production (oracle) > boxes. performance of course is superior to ext2 (at that time). > > > How do the three compare in terms of performance, > > compatibility and stability? Any reason why we shouldn't > > chuck ext3fs in favor of one of these more modern filesystems > > already? > > 1) reiserfs cannot recover from media errors: you bad-sector your drive, > you lose most/all your data! whereas ext2/ext3 can "force read" past the > bad blocks, so you can recover
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