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

[QuarkAV.com - Hilton Travis]

On 17/08/2009 9:27 AM, Russell Stuart wrote:
> 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?
>    
G'day Russell,

Now I also go back and check, yes, that was the issue.  The guy 
reformatted the drive (in the NSLU2, therefore reformatted the FS as 
EXT3) and we were unable, even after posting to this list, to find any 
way to recover data without sending it to CBL and paying over $2000.  
Was this an NTFS or FAT32 volume, I could have recovered 100% of the 
files for under $250.

- Hilton Travis