After discussion at the last workshop I think we concluded that there aren't really any advantages to ext4 over ext3.

Cairo also had a bit of a problem last year with entire openoffice documents vanishing (truncated to 0 bytes); turned out to be a combination of ext4's very long delayed allocation, Openoffice not using fsync() when it should, and Cairo hitting the reset button to reboot into Windows rather than shutting down properly ...

I think from now on I'm going to just use ext3 on all my installs.

On 25 October 2012 10:37, Peter Reutemann <fracpete@waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
"A bug introduced with version 3.6.2 of the Linux kernel can cause an
ext4 filesystem to lose data if the system is rebooted twice in a
short period of time. After the bug was reported, kernel developer Ted
Ts'o quickly published a patch."

-- source: http://h-online.com/-1736110

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
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