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Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch (Debian

Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch (Debian

Posted Apr 26, 2006 15:59 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch (Debian by ikm
Parent article: Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch (Debian Administration)

So what? This is a documented behaviour. Only the metadata is preserved, the actual data may be lost.

Then why have logging filesystem at all ? Note: I'm not talking about "fresh" files - they are not expected to survive. But when files created days and weeks ago perish in crash... sorry - this is not what I expect from logging filesystem.

In few cases I even had corrupted files which survived first crash but not second one - gosh. Worse then EXT2 without any logging: at least there you can be sure files are there - or not...


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