Reliable file systems
Kent Nyberg
nyberg.kent at spray.se
Sat Nov 6 16:43:41 UTC 2004
lör 2004-11-06 klockan 16:25 +0000 skrev Benjamin Roe:
> I just had to hit the reset button during boot because of a hard lockup
> (due to athcool, I think). Anyway, I've always used XFS for my systems
> as it's been very reliable. However, this reboot seems to have
> completely killed the filesystem. I had to run xfs_repair to get the
> system to let me login, and even now half of /usr, most of apt's package
> lists and various other things are either in lost+found or just gone.
>
> I've always thought the point of journalled file systems was to avoid
> this sort of thing. I was especially surprised as few of the files were
> even open at the time of the reboot - it was quite early in the boot
> sequence.
>
> Does anyone have any good tips for making sure this kind of thing is
> less likely to happen? Either mount options or alternative file systems,
> I guess.
>
> I can find benchmarks for Linux file systems, but nothing on their
> reliability. I've had this happen with Reiserfs and ext3, but had hoped
> that XFS would be better.
>
> Ben
>
>
Im not an expert, but as a normal user I have been using ext3 as default
since it was introduced in the Linux distributions i've use(d).
I have been forced to do a few resets, some times caused by lockups, and
some times iv'e just haven't had the time to wait for the system to shut
down. But, i have had no problems with filesystems being unusable.
Perhaps i have just been lucky, but as far as I know, I would regard
ext3 as a reliable file system.
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