Re: Ext2 Reliability

From: Ted Unangst (tedu_at_stanford.edu)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:51:38 -0700

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Jordan T. Cox wrote:

> I'm wondering how reliable OpenBSD's ext2 (3 without journaling) support
> is. It's going to be awhile until I can scrounge up enough money for a
> hard-drive to back my data up to transfer to, before converting over to
> the BSD fs. I've got the drives mounted, and I'm wondering if I need to
> fear data loss - or not. The data is not crucial, but I would not like
> to lose it un-necessarily.

> I'm not wondering about theory, I'm wondering if anybody has any actual
> experience - or second-hand experience, et al. I know that the ext2 FS
> is not native, but I am still wondering if I should unmount the disks
> until I have the money for another hard-drive to transfer to.

theory's all you get today. :) ext2fs was derived from the ffs code, and
still shares a large amount of code with it. it is believed to work,
though rarely used.

if you are primarily reading this data, all should be well. i would just
create new data on an ffs partition. 

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