JFS vs EXT3 vs XFS vs ReiserFS

[Paul S]

Karl Larsen said the following on 04/29/2008 08:09 AM:
> Paul S wrote:
>> I've reinstalled hardy 4 times over the past 2 months due to the EXT3 
>> filesystem getting corrupted.  I didn't have any such problem on gutsy, 
>> just hardy.

>     How do you know it is the file system is bad? I am using EXT3 and 
> while having problems with nVidia I had to just turn off the computer 
> many times. It came back up with small errors corrected while 7.10 
> booted up.
> 
>     Are you saying Hardy will not correct the small errors, or that the 
> errors are large and cannot be corrected?

Specifically, after a normal shutdown (no power failure or anything), 
when I next booted the fsck kicked in because of some irregularity that 
fsck detected.  The automatic fsck failed with the error message that it 
had to be done manually in read only mode.  So, I did it manually and 
replied Y to each prompt that came up.  I'm not a ext3 fsck expert, so 
didn't understand the messages and prompts of fsck.  After all were 
corrected, I rebooted.  Once the desktop launched, I had a screen 
showing only the wallpaper and an empty panel .. and no response to any 
key or mouse inputs.  So, it some vital files were ruined by the fsck. 
This happened 3 times previously on earlier versions of hardy, all on ext3.

I also have a second partition where I was doing some xorg driver 
testing on hardy.  That partition is also ext3.  It is not encrypted nor 
is it LVM, but just regular.  The last time I booted it, I got the same 
fsck error messages.  I have not had time to go back to run it and see 
if it's also ruined.

So far, using JFS on this reinstall, no such problems ... that's what 
makes me think it's software not hardware.

regards,