Yes, you are correct, that is one of the things a journaled file system does. I have been running ReiserFS on Mandrake for quite a while now at home. No problems, even when the power does go south on me, it actually seems faster than ext2. I heard yesterday that the ac kernel series now has an ext3 patch in it, too. I don't know the status of the IBM JFS port. I use that here at work on several AIX machines, and have never had a problem, even when the UPS fails :( And then there is the XFS project, which I think has reached a usable status. Thanks, James Spinti jspinti at dartdist.com 952-368-3278 x396 fax 952-368-3255 |-----Original Message----- |From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org |[mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Simeon Johnston |Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 8:57 AM |To: TCLUG |Subject: [TCLUG] The Search For A Better Filesystem. | | |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. | |sim |_______________________________________________ |tclug-list mailing list |tclug-list at mn-linux.org |https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list |