The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part III)
The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part III)
Posted Jul 6, 2006 17:45 UTC (Thu) by piman (guest, #8957)In reply to: The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part III) by PaulMcKenney
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IANA filesystem developer, but it would seem to me the answer is no. The two causes of disk corruption are bugs (in the driver, kernel, filesystem, etc) or hardware failure (disk or memory). In the case of a disk failure, you lose whatever data was corrupted regardless of whether you use one large filesystem or many small ones. In the case of memory failure or bugs, with many small filesystems you will only corrupt the ones being written to. So the many small filesystems approach offers an advantage here as well.
Posted Jul 6, 2006 20:40 UTC (Thu)
by PaulMcKenney (✭ supporter ✭, #9624)
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Two more failure modes: system crash (which loses whatever writes were in flight but not completed) and point-media failures on the disk platter.The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part III)