[Gllug] Linux equivalent of OS X filesystem Directory

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at workshy.org
Wed Nov 19 10:22:11 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:58:48AM +0000, gunzip wrote:
> My question is whether Linux works similarly with a filesystem directory 
> which is equally vulnerable to corruption when bad sectors creep into the 
> disk or is this vulnerability perculiar to OS X?

Linux offers you a range of filesystems that you could use; some are
better for working with large files (e.g. XFS), some offer fast
performance with lots of small files (ReiserFS), almost all are more
stable than what you typically see with OSX.

-- 
Bruce

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