From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L53GS-0008QI-Br for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:08:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD518E04E6; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:07:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826DBE04E6 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:07:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 10040212A6E for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:07:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9136212A62 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:07:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from [2001:638:605:eea0:219:66ff:fe86:ce12] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.10) with ESMTPSA id 39101357 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:07:55 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:07:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.90 (Linux/2.6.27.7r4_ehci; KDE/4.1.80; x86_64; ; ) References: <1227479490.26615.47.camel@rattus> <58965d8a0811250957k7c4ef8adu7abfc9da08b8800d@mail.gmail.com> <38af3d670811251037o795bf698l88c5bd900957fa60@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <38af3d670811251037o795bf698l88c5bd900957fa60@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811252007.55035.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: e25ae40d-552c-40bd-879e-c8a70f4c527d X-Archives-Hash: bd3c946377ae9b1f6147f11628ceb1ba On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > I was able to recover much of the data with reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, > but some of the files had part of their content replaced with a string > of null bytes. I heard somewhere that reiserfs is infamous for > replacing file content with a string of null bytes, so maybe this is > indeed reiserfs fault, and not just bad hardware. no, that is xfs. > So it seems I should not have chosen reiserfs, which has a fame of > being less safe than ext3, and certainly has less software support > than ext3. The next time I format my root partition, I will choose > ext3 (then move to ext4 when it is stable). reiserfs has barriers turned on by default - which makes it a bit slower but a lot safer for data. ext3 has them turned off by default - ext3 devs don't care about data - only speed. You turn on barriers, performance goes down by 30%.