Linux and drives > 2 terabytes; questions.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:44:00PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   As they say in Star Wars, in a nearby place, a long time ago, the only
> linux filesystem choices for home use were ext2fs and ReiserFS.  Ext2fs
> was bad for recovering from hard crashes and lockups.  ReiserFS has
> never lost me any data.  Since then other filesystems have come and
> gone.  ReiserFS still works.  Why rock the boat?

Reiserfs has lost vastly more data than ext2 ever will.  At least
ext2 could be repaired when something went wrong, which wasn't true
of reiserfs.

Once you understand the design of reiserfs, you won't want to trust any
data to it anymore.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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