SOLVED! Server Fubar'ed - Ideas welcomed

[Alma J Wetzker]

Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Saturday 11 June 2005 09:31 am, Ben Duncan wrote:
> 
>>Which is why choosey users chose Ext3 .... ;>
>>
>>Collins Richey wrote:
>>
>>>On 6/10/05, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Well why didn't you *say* it was XFS!  ;)
>>>
>>>Really! Back in the days when I spent more time with Gentoo, I
>>>remember that Gentoo developers insisted that no one should run xfs
>>>without a ups. xfs appears to cache enough stuff that sudden power
>>>failures can leave you in an undefined state, which sort of negates
>>>what journaling is supposed to provide.
> 
> 
> Same here... ext3 has served me quite well over the internet-years, where as 
> other file systems have caused me troubles. Sometimes, the mostest, isn't the 
> bestest....

I like xfs, of course I run ups's on every box.  (They are $5.00 a pop 
for the APC 280 at the local experienced computer outlet.)  Nothing 
really against ext3.  When it comes to file systems, my attitude is, it 
must be journaling and it can *NOT* be reiser.

     -- Alma