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Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:10:25 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com> Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, tytso@....edu, mtk.manpages@...il.com, rdunlap@...otime.net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements On Sun 2009-01-04 18:35:41, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > [CC: Alan Cox because of his reply in the "XFS internal error" thread] > >> Using ext3 is only safe if storage subsystem meets certain >> criteria. Document those. > > Thanks for this patch. However, after reading this, I have a stupid > question: which file system should I use if I had to reinstall my > computers from scratch now? ext2 is still the safest default... if you can live with fsck. ext3 is the safest from the journalling ones, AFAICT. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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