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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