[clug] EXT4 Reliability

[Ian McLeod]

Hi,

I'm not concerned about performance, I am interested purely in 
reliability.  Say a few sectors die or something after a few years, will 
EXT4 perform better than FAT or NTFS as recovering data.

Thanks,

Ian

Anshul Gupta wrote:
> 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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