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On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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> > reiserfs has barriers turned on by default - which makes it a bit slower |
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> > but a lot safer for data. ext3 has them turned off by default - ext3 devs |
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> > don't care about data - only speed. You turn on barriers, performance |
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> > goes down by 30%. |
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> I read an article about that, and if I recall correctly the assumption |
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> was that the likelihood of data loss occurring due to the barriers |
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> issue was negligible. I have no expertise to decide on that matter, |
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> but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by |
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> default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop |
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> usage), no? |
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fedora turns on 4k stack - well knowing that it kills xfs. Do you want to |
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rephrase your question? |
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> Somewhat offtopic: |
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> What do you suggest for me? I care about data safety, but am too lazy |
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> to make frequent backups, so filesystem robustness and availability of |
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> data recovery tools is pretty important; |
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so use whatever you want, get a nice cheap dlt from ebay and let a cronjob |
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write to it. No 'lazy' problem. Very secure. |
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