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On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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> I was able to recover much of the data with reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, |
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> but some of the files had part of their content replaced with a string |
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> of null bytes. I heard somewhere that reiserfs is infamous for |
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> replacing file content with a string of null bytes, so maybe this is |
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> indeed reiserfs fault, and not just bad hardware. |
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no, that is xfs. |
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> So it seems I should not have chosen reiserfs, which has a fame of |
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> being less safe than ext3, and certainly has less software support |
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> than ext3. The next time I format my root partition, I will choose |
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> ext3 (then move to ext4 when it is stable). |
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reiserfs has barriers turned on by default - which makes it a bit slower but a |
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lot safer for data. ext3 has them turned off by default - ext3 devs don't care |
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about data - only speed. You turn on barriers, performance goes down by 30%. |
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