[clug] EXT4 Reliability

[Anshul Gupta]

EXT4 is stable as of 2.6.28 and I don't doubt it's stability. However  
for storing my important data I will still go for ext3. Also not to  
mention that not all my computers are running recent kernel and for  
USB disk I would like a filesystem recognised by most.

You can even mount ext3 partition as ext4 to get some performance  
improvements from ext4 drivers.

Cheers, Anshul

On 29/09/2009, at 6:32 PM, Ian McLeod wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am compiling a backup of wedding master tapes and photos and was  
> about to use the usual route of NTFS support on an external drive in  
> Ubuntu - and stopped and thought - do I *need* NTFS for a backup  
> drive?  Why not use a (possibly more reliable) Linux file system?
>
> So I promptly re-formatted a USB drive as EXT4 and I am happily  
> copying across gigs of precious data after chown'ing to my username.
>
> Is EXT4 reliable for USB external drive backup purposes?  Quick  
> reading on the Internet seems to suggest so.  I presume especially  
> compared to NTFS.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian
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