Ubuntu becomes unusable - force fsck when needed

[Hervé Fache]

One thing I reproach to ext3 is the regular startup check. I actually
wrote a spec to try and remedy that:
https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ext3-shutdown-forcedcheck

If someone could comment on that I'd be very grateful (even if it's a
'this is useless' comment).

Hervé.

On 9/5/06, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
> 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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