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A terrifying accusation. I've had both OpenZFS and Btrfs eat my data, luckily I had backups but did lose a few files. XFS is probably the best bet on Linux, it
by grumpyprole 3y ago
A terrifying accusation. I've had both OpenZFS and Btrfs eat my data, luckily I had backups but did lose a few files. XFS is probably the best bet on Linux, it was beautifully designed and implemented by SGI back in the day. Hopefully the ChatGPT generation don't start modifying that code too much.
- noigai 3y ago> XFS is probably the best bet on Linux Yes, agree. However, I also lost files on it (had files overwritten with 0s, as other people already commented here). Also, it's your best bet of you don't need the extra features provided by ZFS. Thanks to its checksum validation, I detected bad SATA cables three times already (on different systems), instead of getting corrupted data. >it was beautifully designed and implemented by SGI back in the day. Hopefully the ChatGPT generation don't start modifying that code too much. Except it's not what happened. Please check this talk from Dave Chinner, where he explains how XFS was developed and ported to Linux and then made robust and stable by him and other contributors. The disk format has changed many times, now it's robust and resilient against metadata corruption. XFS Development talk by Dave Chinner https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FegjLbCnoBw&t=683s&pp=ygUQeGZzIGRhdmUgY2hpbm5lcg%3D%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FegjLbCnoBw&t=683s&pp=ygUQeGZz... History of Linux FS, also by Dave Chinner: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DxZzSifuV4Q&pp=ygUQeGZzIGRhdmUgY2hpbm5lcg%3D%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DxZzSifuV4Q&pp=ygUQeGZzIGRhdmU...
- grumpyprole 3y agoIt sounds like it's in safe hands, good to know!