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List:       beowulf
Subject:    Re: Filesystem
From:       Eray Ozkural <exa () kablonet ! com ! tr>
Date:       2003-08-28 17:56:53
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On Saturday 02 August 2003 05:45, Alvin Oga wrote:
> i think ext3 is better than reiserfs
> 
> i think ext3 is not any better than ext2 in terms
> of somebody hitting pwer/reset w/o proper shutdown
> 	- i always allow it to run e2fsck when it does
> 	an unclean shutdown ...
> 
> 	- yes ext3 will timeout and continue and restore from
> 	backups but ... am paranoid about the underlying ext2
> 	getting corrupted by random power off and resets
> 

I basically think ext3 and ext2 are a joke and we use XFS on the nodes with no 
performance problem. Excellent reliability!


Regards,

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Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
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