ext4 is the new XFS [LWN.net]

ext4 is the new XFS

Posted Mar 16, 2009 11:01 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: ext4 is the new XFS by dgc
Parent article: ext4 and data loss

>Concerning XFS - most of the "data not written" (not "data loss") problems
>in this scenario have been fixed. XFS is now much more careful to
>correctly order data and metadata updates and so the "XFS ate my files"
>problems have pretty much disappeared.

Don't forget the "files not modified in months are now inexplicably filled with nulls" problems that it had :P.

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