[Wylug-help] XFS or EXT3 ?

[Shaun Laughey]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:00 +0100, Nick R wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I have been lurking for a while and this is my first mail to wylug, so
> firstly a hello to everyone. I have been using Linux for 6 months,
> currently using a little known distro called Caos which my friend
> Martyn introduced me to. I am also playing with Debian on a virtual
> machine at work, which I am really liking). I used Slackware years ago
> when I was at University at Newcastle do Computer Science and used
> mainly as a Quake game server :). I am a vb/asp.net developer by trade
> for Bradford PCT  NHS and would love to move into a Linux/PHP job at
> some point as I slowly growing weary of Microsoft and more and more
> enjoying open-source.
> 
> I have been running XFS on my Laptop and PC for 6 months or so.
> The only problem I have suffered was my when pc rendered unbootable by
> some corrupt ram causing mass data corruption.
> 
> I have recently read that there is a problem with XFS on power
> failures (I have had a couple of power cuts which did'nt cause a
> problem).


Welcome Nick,

Use EXT3. There is very little to compel most of us to use XFS or
Reiser. 

Having lost data using Reiser, XFS and EXT3 I can confirm it's a whole
world easier to recover data from EXT3.

However I do use XFS on a RAID card and it works but I only use it for
unimportant (ie: not livelihood) stuff like virtual machines. 

Hope that helps.

Shaun Laughey.