On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 06:24:48PM -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > W.Kenworthy wrote: > >2. move to reiserfs to minimise it happening again (I got sick of losing > >data to ext3) - YMMV > > Woah. My experience has been the opposite. Ext3 has never given me problems > since I started using it with RedHat 9/Fedora Core 1 almost two years ago. > On > the other hand, trying to install a ReiserFS-based Gentoo system continually > gave me problems (failed attempts to mount it initially, sometimes would > hardlock during disk-intensive things like `emerge --sync` or compiling > something, etc).
Yeah, I agree. I've lost data on unix-like machines five times. Once with ext2 (although I was running GNU/Hurd, so, there was probably something else going on), once with FFS due to hardware failure, and *three* times on linux boxes that were running ReiserFS. YMMV, but I haven't had any problems with ext3 (other than speed issues), JFS, or XFS. -- S. Bergeron, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
