Ubuntu becomes unusable - force fsck when needed

Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at canonical.com
Tue Sep 5 08:25:35 BST 2006


Edward Murrell skrev:

> I'd be more inclined to go with JFS or XFS, because both have been well
> tested on Big Iron(TM) systems. JFS and XFS coming from IBM's AIX
> mainframes and SGI's Irix respectively.

JFS has eaten file systems from me in the past.  I regularly hear 
stories about XFS eating people's data.  While ext3 might not be the 
fastest, shiniest file system around it seems to be pretty defensively 
built up which means it very, very, very seldom loses data.

- tfheen




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