[ILUG] NTFS is better than ext3?

[Nick Murtagh]

Liam Bedford wrote:
> no, it's a free feature.. just turn your machine off a couple of times
> and you should get some corrupt data out of reiser. Out of the people I
> know who were running, the majority of them have lost data (including
> me). At the very least, turn off the tail optimization (mount option
> notail).

This has happened to me too. Reiserfs v3 journals metadata only. If you
expect your data to survive unexpected poweroffs you're in trouble.
It's hardly a secret. If you need full journalling, use ext3 + 
data=journal. Even then, if you're using IDE disks, there's still a 
chance data won't get written to disk (make sure write caching is turned 
off). If you want to go further, you'll need something with battery 
backed cache (like a decent SCSI RAID card). It's a question of how much 
time / effort / money you're willing to put in.

Even with a totally trashed reiserfs I was able to recover most of the
data. I ended up with loads of files in lost+found, but the important
stuff survived with filenames intact.

Anyway, reiserfs v4 will support transactions and transcrashes.
Which is nice.

Nick