[vdr] Re: Filesystem pros & cons

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:31:29PM +0200, Uberto Barbini wrote:
> >> that's exactly the point. people tend to think journaling filesystems
> >> save them from data loss on power failure. but that is an ongoing
> >> misunderstanding. they just save you from the timeconsuming fsck,
> 
> A good journaled filesystem keep disk transition atomic, i.e. less
> file corruptions.

I have more problems because of journaling.

Burn from a reiserfs partition and delete a bigger file (>400MB).
Eh voila hard lockup.





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