[Techtalk] Re: Tried fsck'ing it...

[Caitlyn Martin]

Hi, Conor, Carla, and everyone else,
> > 
> > It's certainly less hassle than restoring a trashed system. I think
> > the most important thing is to use SOME kind of journaling
> > filesystem! So far my experiences with ext3 are positive. I've not
> > tried any others. 
> 
> FWIW, I'm told (no personal experience) that Reiserfs has had problems
> with fs corruption.

It did, which is why Red Hat is still not supporting it as an install
option.  My understanding is that the problems have pretty well been
cleared up.

I ran XFS for a while on a Mandrake box, and was quite satisfied.  My
experiences with IBM's JFS on Linux were really poor--filesystem
corruption problems galore.  Right now XFS is probably the most advanced
journaling filesystem for Linux, but it's not native and requires some
kernel changes (graciously provided by Mandrake with no ill effect). 
ext3 is less sophisticated, but very reliable and native to Linux. 
Reiserfs is very promising, but I'm loathe to put it on a production
system just yet.

All the best,
Caity