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KimTjik

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-08-22

Posts: 715

Re: JFS is evil. (rant)

Instead of searching for the impossible, a file system that whatever happens magically gets all pieces together, try to establish good backup routines.

jb

Member

From: Florida

Registered: 2006-06-22

Posts: 466

Re: JFS is evil. (rant)

Hmm, I've never had any problems with JFS at all, not even after sudden power loss, whereas I've had many problems with others (ext4 and btrfs come to mind as having caused a lot of hassles)

Same here for about the last 5 years, minus the problems with ext4 and btrfs.  The only time I've had a file system problem not due to hardware malfunction was with reiserfs.

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qchapter

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Registered: 2009-06-17

Posts: 43

Re: JFS is evil. (rant)

Yup, file systems can fail.  And hard drives fail often.  Backup, backup, backup.  With simple tools like rsync there really is no excuse.

cesura

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From: Tallinn, Estonia

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 1,867

Re: JFS is evil. (rant)

Oh, I was contemplating switching to JFS from ext4, but after hearing [this FUD], I have second thoughts. ext4 has never given me any data loss problems, so I'll stick with that.

Don't believe the FUD.

Thanks for the consumer confidence

but after hearing these fun stories

Try searching the forums and you will read very similar stories about ext4.

I wasn't saying ext4 doesn't fail, I was saying it has never given me any problems, and I've been using ext* since close to the beginning.

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xc1024

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Registered: 2009-11-10

Posts: 51

Re: JFS is evil. (rant)

Well, I like exotic filesystems. JFS is the most recent one I tried and I have to say that I'm not gonna try it for next 2 years probably. Each time I get a dirty shutdown (aka I-forgot-it's-in-sleep-mode) it spits out the "mounted as read only". Not that I care much, that's mostly a testing system. But for anything mission-critical I wouldn't pick JFS, Too risky.