[ubuntu-in] Which is the best filesystem to use??

Mehul Ved mehul.n.ved at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 14:07:55 BST 2009


2009/4/1 Moz <listmoz at gmail.com>:
> Tricky question. People would swear by a file system as ideal. I have
> read that ext4 has zero tolerance for powerouts and much greater chance
> of it being corrupted in such circumstances, so it is out of question
> for people like me.

I have been using ext4 on arch linux since a few days now. I have had
a couple of unclean shutdowns but no corruptions till now. In fact I
had two distros getting corrupt due to unclean shutdown on the same
drive but smart gives a clean chit the disk. Still, how does ext4
fares will be too early to judge on my install.


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