Prabhakaran et al. injected errors at the block device level (just underneath the filesystem) and found that ext3, resierfs, ntfs, and jfs mostly handled read errors reasonbly but ext3, ntfs, and jfs mostly ignored write errors. While the paper is interesting, someone installing Linux on a system today is much more likely to use ext4 than any of the now-dated filesystems tested by Prahbhakaran et al. We’ll try to reproduce some of the basic results from the paper on more modern filesystems like ext4 and btrfs, some legacy filesystems like exfat, ext3, and jfs, as well as on overlayfs.

source: danluu