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Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release

Posted by timothy on from the good-things-come-from-certain-clashes dept.

microbee writes "Following the Linux kernel 2.6.29 release, several famous kernel hackers have raised complaints upon what seems to be a long-time performance problem related to ext3. Alan Cox, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, Andi Keen, Theodore Ts'o, and of course Linus Torvalds have all participated. It may shed some light on the status of Linux filesystems. For example, Linus Torvalds commented on the corruption caused by writeback mode, calling it 'idiotic.'"

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  1. Re:Safest mkfs/mount options? by mysidia · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ISO9660 for most filesystems. (i.e. read-only)

    EXT3.

    EXT4 is bleeding edge.

    I wouldn't recommend XFS unless you have NVRAM-backed storage.