Jure Pečar wrote: > On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:48:56 -0800 > John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > > >> Timo Schoeler wrote: >> >>> For enterprise environments my favorite FS is XFS, YMMV, though. >>> >>> >> I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL >> anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic loss >> problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures [1] or what >> have you >> >> is B) no longer an issue? >> > > You get horror stories about anything, depending on which people you ask. > For example, where reiserfs was supposed to eat data left and right some > years ago, I had 6 data losing crashes on ext3 and 0 with reiserfs. On same > machine, same disks, so same conditions. Go figure. > > Prior to 2.4.18 reiserfs was not in sync with the then ever changing vfs layer hence the data losses. It became stable after 2.4.18.