list of filesystems with known issues

Frank A. Kingswood frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk
Tue Mar 3 15:38:21 CST 2009


Jens.Wulf at sew-eurodrive.de wrote:
 > Hi all,
 >
 > every once in a while someone with a corrupted repo pops up on this 
list. Sometimes it is because he used hg on a filesystem which has issues.
 > Searching the bugtracker, wiki and mailing list didn't reveal that 
much about filesystems which should be avoided, though. Maybe I just 
didn't use the right keywords, but everything I found was
 >   "There are known problems with XFS on Linux, but that's about it."
 >
 > Which ones cause problems?

 From recent experience, avoid a hard reboot on ext3 while committing 
changes.

Frank
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