[wellylug] Sarge approaching release

[David Antliff]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Ian Sterling wrote:
>
> I do.  It's nice to have a journaled fs that will fall back if
> something goes awry.  But that's just me.  I've never really been much
> excitement for me with either XFS or Reiser, with the exception of the
> one time I ran reiser and the fs for my /usr partition decided to eat
> itself.  That was horrible.  The long and short of that episode is
> that I was unable to back up my disk's /home partition and lost
> everything.  Three years worth of POP'ed email gone.  I still blame
> reiser. heh.

I know people who have had similar problems. I have had odd file
corruption with Reiser too, but never lost an entire filesystem. However
I've been using XFS since... hmmm.... at least 3 years and it's always
behaved itself. But I agree, ext is pretty reliable.

-- 
David