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From: Strong Cypher <cypherstrong@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:21:17
Message-Id: 5251dbe30802150720p2559f280hbff582efbfd104fa@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more by Dale
1 Ok guy thanks for answer ...
2 For my use, mix of ext2/ext3 in partition (lvm) and sparse file could speed
3 up my system ...
4 I think it could not at the same point of reiser4 but support in case of
5 crash could really be better ...
6
7 Thanks for answer
8
9 It's not easy to create filesystem that's is perfect for all case I see ...
10 perhaps one day :) (I can dream, or make it)
11
12 2008/2/15, Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>:
13 >
14 > Aaron Clark wrote:
15 > > Dale wrote:
16 > >>
17 > >>
18 > >> Little addition to XFS, I tried it once a while ago. Every time the
19 > >> power failed, it would never boot again. I can say from personal
20 > >> experience and from what I have read from others, if you plan to use
21 > >> XFS, have a good UPS hooked up. It does not like power failures at
22 > >> all. YMMV
23 > >>
24 > >
25 > > :) In the YMMV category, I've used XFS on pretty much every file
26 > > server I've had in the last 4-5 years and it's never given me any
27 > > trouble despite pretty much never having a UPS hooked up and a decent
28 > > number of power outages. Granted, I never used it on my root
29 > > filesystem, only storage partitions.
30 > >
31 > > Aaron
32 >
33 >
34 > Good idea not to use it on the / file system. LOL I was using Mandriva
35 > for my ex's Mom. After about three or four tries, I went back to
36 > reiserfs. It would crash but it would boot right back up again.
37 > Nothing lost that I know of.
38 >
39 > I just never trusted it again. I have also been told, and read
40 > elsewhere, that it is a pretty well known thing that it doesn't like
41 > power failures. It has its good points tho, which is why I was trying
42 > it out.
43 >
44 >
45 > Dale
46 >
47 > :-) :-)
48 >
49 > --
50 > gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list
51 >
52 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>