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[Vadim Plessky]

On Sunday 21 July 2002 2:46 pm, Martijn Klingens wrote:
|  On Sunday 21 July 2002 11:52, Rolf Magnus wrote:
|  > Do you by any chance use reiserfs? It tends to write "strange stuff"
|  > into files on a system crash.
|
|  That's not very special for reiserfs.
|
|  On non-journaling file-systems you can only pray the file data and the
|  meta-data are in sync. fsck will find most of it, but you can still have a
|  problem like this if you're unlucky.
|
|  And all journaling file systems that write the meta data before the actual
|  file data have this problem, which means pretty much all of them. IIRC
| only ext3 can be configured to write metadata after the write, which is
| slower but more safe. ext3 can even be told to write the file data (!) to
| the journal, causing 100% correct replays of transactions. Needless to see
| that's terribly slow, and ext3 already was slower for partitions with lots
| of small files than reiserfs...
|
|  In general it's a tradeoff between performance and 100% data security
| whether to pick reiser or ext3. For most applications reiser is already far
| more reliable than any non-journaling system out there.

So, what journaling file system you recommend for running KDE?
May be, JFS or XFS is a better option than ReiserFS or Ext3?

|
|  Martijn

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