Ubuntu becomes unusable - force fsck when needed

[David Kempe]

Sorry about the late post, but I have lost more files to ext3 screwups 
than xfs screwups. I'm over ext3 for my machines. (I'm not talking about 
a few machines here - say hundreds of file systems across hundreds of 
machines). Given that ext3 still needs manual fscks, and still loses 
data and metadata when bad things happen, I figure you may as well use 
xfs - at least LVM snapshots work better(using xfs-freeze) and simply 
have more consistent backups...

dave

Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> JFS has eaten file systems from me in the past.  I regularly hear 
> stories about XFS eating people's data.  While ext3 might not be the 
> fastest, shiniest file system around it seems to be pretty defensively 
> built up which means it very, very, very seldom loses data.