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"Ironically, I've had far more problems with Linux systems using extfs losing data or requiring very lengthy fsck'ing after hard resets than Windows 9x or even
by wankle 4y ago
"Ironically, I've had far more problems with Linux systems using extfs losing data or requiring very lengthy fsck'ing after hard resets than Windows 9x or even DOS on FAT, despite experiencing more hard resets and routine hangs in my use of the latter."
Your experience does not match the vast majority of users. The only OS I lost data on was on Windows when a drive crashed hard. When the same happened years later on Linux, I lost exactly nothing.
- lizknope 4y agoYeah, I've been using Linux almost exclusively since 1994. I've had power outages and a few crashes but I can't remember ever losing data with ext2. I don't remember losing a lot of data in DOS/Win3.1 but I rarely used it because it crashed so much. I did have a lot of keyboard and X11 lockups in the 1990's but after a year I got a dumb terminal for $20 so someone could still check email, read Usenet, etc. while the main display was in use. If the main keyboard or X11 server locked up I could use the terminal to sync the filesystem and reboot the machine cleanly. I remember doing that quite a bit when playing full screen games or anything with SVGAlib
- dtgriscom 4y agoWhat does "drive crashed hard" mean? It can't mean the physical drive was toast, unless you're using some flavor of RAID in your daily driver.
- t-3 4y agoI've had btrfs lose data several years ago from download-> quickly reboot without manual sync, as well as an ext4 system partition corrupted by unintended power loss (only once that I know of, many other times I had no issues).