From: "Rich" 

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   I think it is significant to note that a clean install of redhat 9 =
will use ext3.  If people think that this is wrong they should ask = redhat.

Rich

  "Geo."  wrote in message
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  "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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  > > I can't agree on this point, ext2 isn't suitable since it's so =
easy to
  wipe
  > > out with a simple power failure. In a fileserver you have to be =
able to
  > > count
  > > on the file system coming back up after a hard poweroff. =
Fileservers are
  > > where everyone stores their data, the file system is critical. =
ext3 is
  the
  > > only choice.
  > >
  >
  > Why? I've tried (on a variety of work PC'es) the other 3 jfs'es & we =
did
  >   "turn off while buzy" tests. ReiserFS, XFS & IBM JFS
all seemed to
  > handle it fine. I think (but I'd have to check our test docs) that =
for
  > us on that machinery XFS was the fastest.

  the filesystem that was suggested was ext2, that was what I was =
disagreeing
  with, not RFS or XFS or JFS but ext2.

  Geo.


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Rich
 

  "Geo." <georger{at}nls.net>">mailto:georger{at}nls.net">georger{at}nls.net>
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ext2.Geo.

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