[PLUG] Re: CRIME Advanced Linux SIG - 7PM Wednesday June 18th --"Modern File Systems"

[alan]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Crispin Cowan wrote:

> Zot O'Connor wrote:
> 
> >Chris Jantzen will give his talk "Modern File Systems" 
> >
> Could we be a tad more specific?
> 
> I'd be particularly interested in a convincing resolution to the 
> persistent, conflicting rumors of "EXT3 is ready for production/no it 
> isn't", and "ReiserFS sux0rs/no it doesn't". The fast recovery times and 
> theoretical lack of disk corruption are attractive, but need to be 
> balanced against the threat of code instability in these new FS's.
> 
> Everyone has an anecdote, while claims of "production ready" really 
> require masses of experience that are *free* of anecdotes.

I would also be interested if it is possible to do secure file deletion on 
journaling file systems.  (Without leaving tell-tale scattered bits lieing 
around.)