Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:42:44
Message-Id: 51772A78.60309@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3? by William Kenworthy
1 William Kenworthy wrote:
2 > I find filesystems are very much a case of YMMV :)
3 >
4 > I will NOT use an ext fs again willingly - lost too many whole systems,
5 > corruption - Ive had less problems with DOS!
6 >
7 > Reiserfs, has had its "moments" but is by far the most stable system,
8 > though NTFS isnt bad these days either.
9 >
10 > btrfs - I am using this for backups systems and under a cephfs rbd store
11 > for VM's. Not bad ... but definitely not stable though its months since
12 > I have lost a whole system ... I am also using it as the primary file
13 > system on an apple macbook air (ssd) and for the OS on an ssd for a vm
14 > server host and its been problem free on both.
15 >
16 > BillK
17 >
18
19 I think Alan said it best but I just can't resist sharing this:
20
21 http://blogs.computerworld.com/15413/the_best_linux_file_system_of_all
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23 That is about Google switching all their servers to . . . . ext4. This
24 is like asking which brand of hard drive is best. No matter who it is,
25 every single person has had at least one drive fail and will never use
26 that brand again. lol
27
28 Just for giggles.
29
30 Dale
31
32 :-) :-)
33
34 --
35 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!