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Re:Nasty Lockup Issue Still Being Investigated for Linux 3.18 by lmm on Monday December 01, 2014 @06:45AM (#8680486)
Versus ext4: online resize, better at handling large directories. Versus xfs: better at handling power loss/crashes (no "trailing zeroes problem"), reiserfsck is not 100% reliable but it can sometimes save you whereas if you reach the same situation with xfs then you have 0% chance of recovering your data. Versus btrfs: more mature (isn't btrfs still tagged as experimental?), same situation wrt fsck.

I use ZFS where I can, but for root filesystems on linux machines reiser still seems like the best tradeoff.

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Re:Nasty Lockup Issue Still Being Investigated for Linux 3.18 by kasabali on Monday December 01, 2014 @05:06PM (#8684220)
> Versus xfs: better at handling power loss/crashes (no "trailing zeroes problem")

I heard they fixed it in 2012. Actually there have been a lot of developments in XFS since 2011, I'm not really interested in filesystems but you should have a look at it again if you're interested.

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Re:Nasty Lockup Issue Still Being Investigated for Linux 3.18 by 0x0 on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:31AM (#8680810)
Ext4 seems to support online growing resize (although needs offline to shrink). Didn't ext3 or ext4 also add directory hashing?
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Re:Nasty Lockup Issue Still Being Investigated for Linux 3.18 by feld on Monday December 01, 2014 @01:25PM (#8682706)
reiserfsck used to be a game of russian roulette -- it either sort-of works and you can mount your filesystem, or it eats all your data.

I can't say I'd trust my data on it these days.

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Re:Nasty Lockup Issue Still Being Investigated for Linux 3.18 by lmm on Monday December 01, 2014 @02:13PM (#8683017)
It's a gamble sure. But if you get into the same situation with XFS or btrfs there's no gamble, just guaranteed data loss.
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Re:Nasty Lockup Issue Still Being Investigated for Linux 3.18 by feld on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @12:38PM (#8688422)
XFS is not as bad as it once was, but I don't use either of those anyway.
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