• JetpackJackson@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    Do you have a source for the ext4 failure stuff? I use ext4 currently and want to see if there’s something I need to do now other than frequent backups

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      2 years ago

      Not seen a fs corruption yet. But i have only run ext4 on around 350 production servers since 2010 ish.
      Have ofcourse seen plenty of hardware failures. But if a disk is doing the clicky, it is not another filesystem that saves you.

      Have regularly tested backups!

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      2 years ago

      Well a few years ago I actually did some research into that but didn’t find much about it. What I said was my personal experience but now we also have companies like Synology pushing BRTFS for home and business customers and they have analytics on that for sure… since they’re trying to move everything…