[H-GEN] Best FS for use with multiple Unix variants

Russell Stuart russell-humbug at stuart.id.au
Sun Aug 16 19:27:05 EDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 06:31 +1000, QuarkAV.com - Hilton Travis wrote:
> Now, as to the FS to choose, I'd recommend against EXT3 as it is nigh on 
> impossible to recover data from as was recently discussed when I had a 
> client who had a HDD die in an NSLU2 device which is formatted as EXT3.

This surprised me, because when I first read it I thought you were
saying it is difficult to recover data of EXT3 after a crash.

So I went back and looked, and it seems your complaint is there is no
tool to recover an EXT3 file system after you reformatted it.  Is that
correct?




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