On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Alexandre Strube wrote:
Some people says it's faster, some people say it's safer. I use it as default in my own distribution (debian-based), and has not a single problem with it, even when electricity suddenly comes down. (This cannot be said for ext3, as a energy interruption screwed my redhat9 ext3 raid0 server).
Same here, we've had numerous catastrophic filesystem failures with ext3 in production systems.
-Dan