Reliable file systems

[zabec]

Benjamin Roe Wrote: 
> 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 have had also problems with reiserfs few times. I don't think it was
> hardware problem and I lost all of my data. Just few days ago I had a
> lockup on another system runnung on xfs and had to repair it, but some
> of my data was also lost. Some files have just gone. With reiserfs it
> was while ago (more then half year). So I also will have to try my luck
> with ext3. I have to note that I have many commputers so that someone
> won't think that that was all on one system so hardware failure could
> be part of it.


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