Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760474AbZADUIl (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:08:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752848AbZADUId (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:08:33 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:58325 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752199AbZADUIc (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:08:32 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:10:25 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" Cc: kernel list , Andrew Morton , tytso@mit.edu, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements Message-ID: <20090104201025.GB20375@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20090103123813.GA1512@ucw.cz> <4960BB2D.3060000@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4960BB2D.3060000@gmail.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 934 Lines: 23 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/