Ubuntu becomes unusable - force fsck when needed

[Daniel Pittman]

Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> writes:
> 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.

Just for completeness, various developments in ext3 have also damaged
file systems and caused incorrect behaviour and data loss; these include
journal bugs, a rare failure to write out blocks and some operational
issues due to the directory indexing stuff.

Which makes a total of all the major file systems to have, at some stage
or other, eaten data.  That, alone, isn't a good metric.  What might be
is if someone was to find all the instances of data loss bugs in each
file system and record them.

Then we could actually compare the faults, and the frequency of faults,
on some reasonable basis.  Otherwise this is just "filesystem X ate my
babies!"

Regards,
        Daniel
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