On Tue, 28 May 2002, Michael Still wrote:
> How reliable is ext3 these days?
No "corrupts data" bugs seen on the kernel list for some time.
> Am I being very brave if I upgrade my laptop hard disc?
Not at all. There will be a performance hit, but on a laptop
side-stepping the need to do a fsck on a unclean shutdown is worth it.
ext3 is a nice filesystem for a general desktop or laptop machine.
Particularly nice is that is journals data, not just meta-data -- that is,
much lower odds of losing that document you just finished.
If you have a lot of spare disk real-estate have a look at the
size= parameter when creating the ext3 journal (it can be up to 4GB [1]).
Probably better sticking with ext2 for servers, and migrating to xfs when
xfs enters the kernel mainstream.
Cheers,
Glen
[1] Part of the ongoing plot to make huge hard disks look small.
eg: if you want to make the disk run fast
80GB disk - 4GB journal - 10% reserved - 2 * 2GB swap
leaving 64GB.
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