Re: ..fixing ext3 fs going read-only, was : Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:24:27PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > What happens on error conditions can be set through tune2fs or as a > > mount option. Having it remount read-only is probably better than > > panicing the kernel. > > ..yeah, except in /var/log, /var/spool et al, I also lean toward

Re: ..fixing ext3 fs going read-only, was : Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-10 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:36:32AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > But for an unattended server, most of the time it's probably better to > > force the system to reboot so you can restore service ASAP. > > ..even for raid-1 disks??? _Is_ there a combination of raid-1 and > journalling fs'es for l

Re: ..fixing ext3 fs going read-only, was : Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:04:19AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..I still believe in raid-1, but, ext3fs??? > > ..how does xfs, jfs and Reiserfs compare? If you have random disk corruptions happening as often as you are, no filesystem is going to be able to help you. The only question is how