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ext4 over xfs

ext4 over xfs

Posted Jan 23, 2009 13:45 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: ext4 over xfs by clump
Parent article: Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)

Well, I was specifically thinking of the other side, how badly xfs has
screwed up filesystems of mine in the past. And I started out as a fan of
xfs, having used it on SGIs. But between losing an entire filesystem on
an external drive, and getting strings of zero-bytes strewn without
warning throughout files on another filesystem, I'm done with xfs.

(BTW, I meant "if *ext4* is anywhere near as reliable as ext3" in my
original comment.)


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