From: Adam Flinton 


Oh OK it was the "ext3 is the only choice" comment I was querying.

Adam

>>>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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