Re: Linux filesystems was [Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


You are missing a very important point: Durability to power failures.
(Excuse me, but a majority of GNU/Linux users are not switched to a UPS
or something.) And that's where XFS totally fails[1][2].


Ext3 has the same problems when not properly configured:

Ext3 does not do checksumming when writing to the journal. If barrier=1 is
not enabled as a mount option (in /etc/fstab), and if the hardware is doing
out-of-order write caching, one runs the risk of severe filesystem
corruption during a crash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3#No_checksumming_in_journal

For the record I use ext3, I remember XFS as not being reliable enough
(with power failures etc).

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