Re: [PLUG] Re: CRIME Advanced Linux SIG - 7PM Wednesday June 18th --"Modern File Systems"

From: alan (alan@private)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 08:33:30 PDT

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    On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Crispin Cowan wrote:
    
    > Zot O'Connor wrote:
    > 
    > >Chris Jantzen will give his talk "Modern File Systems" 
    > >
    > Could we be a tad more specific?
    > 
    > I'd be particularly interested in a convincing resolution to the 
    > persistent, conflicting rumors of "EXT3 is ready for production/no it 
    > isn't", and "ReiserFS sux0rs/no it doesn't". The fast recovery times and 
    > theoretical lack of disk corruption are attractive, but need to be 
    > balanced against the threat of code instability in these new FS's.
    > 
    > Everyone has an anecdote, while claims of "production ready" really 
    > require masses of experience that are *free* of anecdotes.
    
    I would also be interested if it is possible to do secure file deletion on 
    journaling file systems.  (Without leaving tell-tale scattered bits lieing 
    around.)
    



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