Its called NIH or not invented here. Thats why so many user love ext filesystems even though they seem to result in the most data loss and are the biggest pains to use.
Its called NIH or not invented here. Thats why so many user love ext filesystems even though they seem to result in the most data loss and are the biggest pains to use.
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Well not sure about performance (or performance increase pottential) but from the stability/reliability point of view, the EXT3 is ok... But it's also because it absolutely doesn't provide any advanced options, like online defragmentation, snapshots (well there are tools for snapshotting ext3, but I mean internally within the FS), RAID and multi-volume layots (there is LVM2 for the multi-volume and related and MD for RAID but hey why don't we have FS which directly internally contain this, that'd be much more reliable and efficient, once there is a reliable/stable/efficient code for it - and that's exactly what I expect BTRFS to be (or TUX or whichver "next generation" FS))...
If you take a really very old cars and motorbikes, they tend to be much more reliable && easy to fix in comparison to the nowadays overtechnisized machines, but then tell me, why no one wants to have a Citroen 2CV as a family car? I am not claiming for overcomplicated FS (hey, ever heard of GFS?), but EXT* is a stone-age, thats how it is...
I have been uisng Linux for 13 years the only times I lost data due to power outage wa either ext2 or ext3. Also its a pain in the *** if you have a server or like hard drive with that filestyem checkk can take a very long time.
Hopefully, with tux3 and btrfs, such woes will be of yesteryear.
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I have been using xfs for a long time and was not aware of these facts. I have never done 'xfs_repair' manually, although I have three xfs partitions.
Earlier I had jfs and everytime I had an improper shutdown, the jfs partitions would not be mounted during the next boot. I switched to xfs and was just happy that the os boots fast after doing a hard reboot, with all it's partitions.
Thanks for the info, you have opened my eyes!
Last edited by papangul; August 1st, 2009 at 04:19 PM.
Geez there's soo many potential contenders for the next-gen throne now:
btrfs, nilfs32, tux3...
And now that Oracle owns Sun they'll prolly GPL ZFS! I dunno where to start!
There'll have to be one 'officially sanctioned' fs eventually, I wonder which one it'll be!
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