[clug] EXT4 Reliability

[Francis Whittle]

Don't see how what filesystem you use will affect recovery from bad
sectors (bad sectors are bad sectors, it's disk geometry not virtual
allocation blocks), but EXT4 is at least more accessible than NTFS.  

That said, I'll tend to go for ext2 for backup media, for portability.
If incremental backups and media reuse aren't factors, I'll even go as
far as ISO9660 images (with rockridge), which doesn't even have metadata
updates - for anything.

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:01 +1000, Ian McLeod wrote:
> 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