[Gllug] Linux equivalent of OS X filesystem Directory

[Andrew Farnsworth]

I will second the ZFS suggestion.  I have used it only under solaris, but it
seems fast and stable and the author blogs about it and seems to know what he is
talking about.

Andy

On Wed Nov 19  4:58 , gunzip <emacs.el at googlemail.com> sent:

>For a long time now I've toyed with the idea of ditching OS X and using 
>Linux exclusively instead of purely for server work. The graphics/font 
>rendering has always held me back but recently I've encountered a bigger 
>factor which may encourage me to switch once and for all - Directory 
>corrution/drive failure frequency with OS X. This year I've had 2 failures 
>on my dual 2Ghz G5 and in both cases the pattern seems to be the same, ie. 
>the filesystem Directory becomes corrupted and the volume won't boot. My 
>disks also seem to acquire bad sectors faster under OS X but this could be 
>my imagination.
>
>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?
>
>gunzip
>
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