friendly file system advice

[Jerry McBride]

On Saturday 12 August 2006 03:54, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 20:24 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On 8/11/06, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> > > I've had some very bad experieces with reiserfs trashing data so
> > > have been avoiding it for years.
> >
> > My experiences exactly - neveragain in this lifetime.
>
> Same here. Our systems run in a van. We require robustness in the event
> of running out of fuel. IMHO, and very unpopular one as well, the vxfs
> file system that comes with UnixWare is also damned good. Never a
> problem in years of use.
>

We've deployed ext3 as our filesystem of choice. And we're eagerly watching 
the developments of ZFS for Linux. As soon as something useful comes out of 
the current porting efforts, we'll begin testing. ZFS is rather well known 
for it robustness, but until of late it was a proprietary beast of Sun.

Cheers.