Guido Fiala wrote:
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 19:46, Luca Olivetti wrote:
En/na Patrick Cernko ha escrit:
I'm using SGI's XFS for any kind of data filesystem and only use ext3 for / . So far, no problems at all.
I also use XFS exclusively, but I have the "random zeroed files" when the system crashes/power goes off unexpectedly.
Oh sorry, I missed that. But something like that must be expected on every system on crashed at least if you do not mount the FS "in sync" (like sugested for a totally safe qmail mailserver :-) ).
I always thought exactly this should be avoided by a journalling FS?
A pity that Tux2 never made it (because the author thought of patent issues) ... or is there similar technology available now, so many years after?
The journal normally only protects the filesystem metadata so that the OS can still "recognize" the the block-dev as a filesystem. Some filesystems also allow "data journaling" but at a cost of writing the data twice to the disc(s).
So long,