On Saturday 20 November 2010 13:57:28 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/20/2010 11:57 AM, Ghodechhap wrote: > > Use ext4. its faster that ext3 in general and has faster fsck. Mount > > option auto_da_alloc takes care of possibility of of data loss. Besides > > most data loss cases are reported on config files which are written, > > closed and renamed without an fsync. Thats a case not applicable for > > backup purposes. > > > > and I still recommend btrfs :) You can snapshot the data and access it at > > will. Something very important for backup drive. > > Well, Btrfs doesn't even have a fsck yet that can repair damage and > until then recommending Btrfs is just not right. If you want something > that is mature and stable, use Ext4 or XFS. Btrfs will take atleast > six months to an year to be ready for wide use.
fedora provides btrfs option in installer. Probably they are doing it wrong. -- Regards Shridhar _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
