On Monday 04 June 2001 23:42, Sean Morgan wrote: > > The situation I'm reffering to here is that of someone who might see a > temporary interface slowdown or crash(happen quite often in office suites > of any kind), and having no knowledge of how linux works, just hits the > reset button(this could easily get repeated a whole bunch of times > throughout the day in a school environment, and would do all kinds of nasty > things to the fs). The background you seem to be coming from is some kind > of server farm or similar setup where the users are all at least competent > enough not to do lots of hard resets. Generally speaking, Linux with ext2 > is probably the worst OS I've ever worked with for recovering from mundane > stuff like that, but I do agree with you that it is much better than most > as far as low instance of failure due to actual bugs within the filesystem > are concerned. I don't see how RAID mirroring is an option though, as it > would only serve to guard against mechanical failure, which is sort of > beyond the ability of a filesystem to affect one way or the other.
Wouldn't the ReiserFS help with this, being that it's journalled? I don't know much about it, having only recently moved to it. But in BeOS, which also has a journalled file system, doing a hard reset, or cutting the power, had no noticeable effect on the system. - Ed
