Ubuntu becomes unusable - force fsck when needed

[Ivan Krstić]

Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> JFS has eaten file systems from me in the past.  I regularly hear 
> stories about XFS eating people's data. 

Likewise; I've had XFS and Reiser both eat filesystems on high-end
server hardware; I can't say the same for ext3.

Hervé Fache wrote:
> We could also use reiserfs by default, although I think ext3 is more
> reliable in case of power failure. Apart from when it goes wrong like
> here of course!

Improvements in ext3 are being developed as a separate fs, ext3dev,
which will eventually become ext4 and possibly replace ext3 entirely in
the kernel tree; other than this, I find default filesystem
migrations in Ubuntu very unlikely in the short to medium term.

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