On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 08:57:10AM -0500, Simeon Johnston wrote: > We had a bad power outage last night. Someone ran into a phone pole or > something... Surged on and off for a while before we got all the > machines off. A bunch of our machines have some major problems now. > I am wondering if there is a better filesystem then ext2 for this kind > of thing? IIRC RieserFS and Ext3 wouldn't have a problem with sudden > and complete losses of power because of the way they right to the HD. > Actually any Journaling FS should be like this. > I'm not sure but that's what I heard. > > Is this correct? If so I think I'll switch over reeeeaaaaal soon. > I've been having a lot of power problems lately and no UPS's (don't > bother me with crap like "you should always have a UPS" and "What the > hell are you thinking". No UPS. Get over it. You'll be happy to know > I do have power cleaners). > > Is there a filesystem that is built to handle this sort of thing. > If not there should be. There are. Which ones it is a matter of religious wars. I have been sucessfull with reiserfs and partially with xfs. You should avoid jfs as it is still experimental. ext3 is getting closer to the kernel but it's still far. The only recomandation I can make is install each of them, make yourself confident that you can back them up, restore, export via nfs, kick them hard and then put them into production. florin -- "If it's not broken, is because you are not fixing it enough." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4