Which journaling filesystem is most robust?

[Derek Atkins]

I would stay away from reiserfs -- it breaks the userspace
inode abstraction (meaning the inode number you get from
stat() or readdir() does not uniquely identify the file!)

I don't know enough about the other FSs to give a reasonable
response to you.

-derek

Glenn Burkhardt <glenn at vtecus.com> writes:

> I'd like to start using a journaling filesystem in our products, and started
> with ReiserFS.  But there were a couple of scary notes on the Mandrake web
> site:
> 
> 8.1 FAQ
> Date: Thursday, September 27
> 
> - Can all of these filesystems be used with Samba and NFS?
>   Yes, all for Samba, and XFS offers compatibility with acls from windows NT 
>   servers. For NFS, the Reiser FAQ says it is OK now though our experience
>   is to the contrary(no danger to the files, just a very very slow connection
>   after some use). For ext3, JFS and XFS, NFS works. JFS should be used
>   experimentally at this time.
> 
> Does anyone know exactly what this is all about?
> 
> But more importantly, what's my best choice for a journaling filesystem now,
> given that we also use NFS.  
> 
> TIA...
> 
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