Reliable file systems

[Benjamin Roe]

> Again, there are some aspects of filesystem operation that are outside
> the control of the filesystem itself. That said, ext3 is likely the
> single most reliable journaled filesystem you are likely to find (as it
> is in heavy use everywhere, and builds directly on ext2 which has many
> years of use to shake any bugs out of it). In my humble view, Reiserfs
> tends to lean a little too much towards features as opposed to stability
> (for me, there is no such thing as too much stability when it comes to
> filesystems).
> 

Yes, I've had endless trouble with Reiser. I've never even found it to
be that fast, either. Time to switch to ext3, perhaps.

Ben