Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3 | | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | | Date | Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:43:53 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 07:00, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 02:41, David Weinehall wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:30:32PM -0500, Andrew Ho wrote: > > > XFS is the best filesystem. > > > > Well it'd better be, it's 10 times the size of ext3, 5 times the size of > > ReiserFS and 3.5 times the size of JFS. > > > > And people say size doesn't matter. > > Recoverability matters to me. The driver could be 10 megabyte and > *I* would not care. XFS seems to stand no matter how rudely the OS > is knocked down.
But XFS easily breaks down due to media defects. Once ago I used XFS, but I lost all data on one of my volumes due to a bad block on my hard disk. XFS was unable to recover from the error, and the XFS recovery tools were unable to deal with the error.
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