JFS vs EXT3 vs XFS vs ReiserFS

[Karl Larsen]

Paul S wrote:
> I've reinstalled hardy 4 times over the past 2 months due to the EXT3 
> filesystem getting corrupted.  I didn't have any such problem on gutsy, 
> just hardy.
>
> I'm just running a desktop, but using crypto and lvm to put both the 
> root and swap within the same partition, with a separate small /boot 
> partition.  All done from the alternate installer.
>
> So, after 3 installs with EXT3, I decided to try something else.  I 
> notice the installer offers JFS, XFS, and ReiserFS, so I picked JFS for 
> the 4th reinstall.
>
> I've been running it a couple days and have purposely crashed the system 
> at least 10 times and not yet had any filesystem problem.  This makes me 
> believe there is some bug in the EXT3 driver rather than a hardware 
> problem on my harddrive.  I have a Seagate Technologies harddrive.
>
> I also noticed some bugs on launchpad about similar experiences with 
> EXT3, but no solutions.
>
> I read some on wikipedia and googling, but I couldn't get anything more 
> than specifications .. nothing on performance comparisons among the 4.
>
> Anyone know any reason to avoid JFS or use any other?
>
> TIA,
>
>   
    How do you know it is the file system is bad? I am using EXT3 and 
while having problems with nVidia I had to just turn off the computer 
many times. It came back up with small errors corrected while 7.10 
booted up.

    Are you saying Hardy will not correct the small errors, or that the 
errors are large and cannot be corrected?

Karl




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