Maybe it really does get a fatal corrutpion with a bit or byte memory error sooner than ext3 ... can't really compare :)
But reiserfsck did some real magic for me at least once ... when i thought the fs was toasted, it nicely put it back together again, lost a few megs and put ~2gb into /lost+found (out of ~480gb).
I'm not sure how's XFS compared to other fs. I've been using it for few years. It seems to be fine.
May I ask has anyone consider SATA RAID yet? I seems to be a very inexpensive solution.
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