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

Posted Apr 28, 2006 4:43 UTC (Fri) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]

The trouble is that "doing a poll", or more realistically chatting back and forth and swapping war stories, is a terrible way to figure out the truth about things. Humankind has recently developed a set of alternate techniques to figure out the truth about things, which collectively go under the rubric of "science". The older technique would best be titled "folklore".

It is part of Linux culture to sit around and swap stories and form sort of a group consensus on things which are otherwise not measured or analyzed. Does the group consensus usually settle on the truth? Who knows. Folklore is often right. Sometimes not. I'll withhold judgment until I see something better.

(The article linked to in this thread that did fault injection and source analysis of myriad possible failures is an example of something better.)

Regards,

Zooko