Re: ext3 filesystem / linux 7.3

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 17:56, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 05:18:26PM +0200, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
>
> > Well, I've been using ReiserFS now for years, and never had any problems
> > with it.
>
> Me too.  But the "known failure modes" that people keep reporting
> about have to do with completely trashing, say, a whole page of data.
> Your directories are fine, but the data is all hosed.
>
> I've never had it happen.  I've never seen anyone who can
> consistently reproduce it.  But I've certainly read about it often
> enough to have pretty serious reservations about relying on the
> filesystem for data I can't afford to lose.
Well, than backups and statistics are your only solution.
Only way to know if something works is to test it for some time. (You
never know if something in your use doesn't trigger some border case of
malfunction in the kernel.)

Andreas
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