Enough is enough: I HATE EXT4

TheGrudge · 2009-06-19 11:00:12

Ok that's it! I will never ever touch this filesystem in my life. After having some trouble over the last months, today was the day I really had a fucked up system.
I suspend my laptop over night. As I resumed this morning, my EXT4 media partition was nearly empty. All my music was gone, my images, my source codes, everything. Some folders were still there, nearly 34GB of data was gone.
I had made a backup the evening before, so I thought I will try to restore the data. But it isn't working. I get IO-Errors all the time, saying that it can't access some specific folders on the "broken" ext4 partition.
I ran fsck, and a badsector check, too. Nothing.... all seems to be fine.
I finally deleted all files on this partition and started rsync again: IO-Error: can't access the folder (although they were deleted).
I guess the INode-Table is broken or some other ext4 information, but I don't want to give it another try.

I don't trust any extX filesystem now. This is really a problem because I don't like reiserfs, either, only on /var for pacman.
Oh before anyone mentions this: I used nodelalloc in fstab as well as barriers=0 and noatime.
But still I have this massive data loss. How is this even possible? I couldn't have 34GB opened so that a missing flush will fill those files with zeros. And why can't I access the folder anymore, even when I delete and recreate it?

It seems that ext4 doesn't like suspend to ram, because sometimes I rebooted my machine and it always told me that the filesystem contains errors on startup.
But I never had such problems with ext3 and JFS.

I hope I can restore my system and don't lose too much data now, but for me EXT4 is dead... Hope you guys never experience this...

void_false · 2009-06-19 11:11:03

Fortunately, suspend doesnt work on my laptop. So i never used it and never had any problems with data loss.

Allan · 2009-06-19 11:13:11

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#1 2009-06-19 11:00:12

Enough is enough: I HATE EXT4

#2 2009-06-19 11:11:03

Re: Enough is enough: I HATE EXT4

#3 2009-06-19 11:13:11

Re: Enough is enough: I HATE EXT4

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