Re: Ext2 Reliability

From: Jordan T. Cox (none_at_none.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:36:36 -0500

Ted Unangst wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Alright, thank you very much for your suggestion. I figured that
reading should be relatively safe, and have yet to actually commit any
data to either of the two drives. Thanks again.

Regards,
Jordan T. Cox