FYI: there was a discussion on ext3dev/ext4 back in June on linux-kernel. <br><br>Summary:<br><br><a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6776">http://kerneltrap.org/node/6776</a><br><br>-SS-<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 9/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ivan Krstiæ</b> <<a href="mailto:krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu">krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tollef Fog Heen wrote:<br>> JFS has eaten file systems from me in the past. I regularly hear<br>> stories about XFS eating people's data.<br><br>Likewise; I've had XFS and Reiser both eat filesystems on high-end<br>
server hardware; I can't say the same for ext3.<br><br>Hervé Fache wrote:<br>> We could also use reiserfs by default, although I think ext3 is more<br>> reliable in case of power failure. Apart from when it goes wrong like
<br>> here of course!<br><br>Improvements in ext3 are being developed as a separate fs, ext3dev,<br>which will eventually become ext4 and possibly replace ext3 entirely in<br>the kernel tree; other than this, I find default filesystem
<br>migrations in Ubuntu very unlikely in the short to medium term.<br><br>--<br>Ivan Krstiæ <<a href="mailto:krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu">krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu</a>> | GPG: 0x147C722D<br><br><br>--<br>
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