friendly file system advice

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Saturday 12 August 2006 03:54, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 20:24 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
>>> On 8/11/06, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
>>>> I've had some very bad experieces with reiserfs trashing data so
>>>> have been avoiding it for years.
>>>
>>> My experiences exactly - neveragain in this lifetime.
>>
>> Same here. Our systems run in a van. We require robustness in the event
>> of running out of fuel. IMHO, and very unpopular one as well, the vxfs
>> file system that comes with UnixWare is also damned good. Never a
>> problem in years of use.
>>
>
> We've deployed ext3 as our filesystem of choice. And we're eagerly watching
> the developments of ZFS for Linux. As soon as something useful comes out of
> the current porting efforts, we'll begin testing. ZFS is rather well known
> for it robustness, but until of late it was a proprietary beast of Sun.

Whenever someone starts raving about ZFS I really have to wonder what 
they're basing the claims off of?  ZFS has basically been development 
quality for a few years, and still isn't shipping via any OS installable 
mechanism in Solaris, much less any other OS.  Yes, the featureset sounds 
impressive, but beyond that I don't think there's much real world usage 
going on to validate how well Sun's claims match with reality.  The fact 
that Sun isn't yet making it a Solaris install-time option speaks volumes 
about how much confidence they have in it.

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