From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RAwvN-0006rv-DV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:48:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1423121C0FD; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 04:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB3B21C063 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 04:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg14 with SMTP id 14so115145wwg.10 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:47:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Q6K4RE0WYEq3jbIQTcdHVuvjJXwoQMNRj0A2W/rUipQ=; b=XkCWBAToMhypQuHaC1mMXnRl/j6bLQBtAv4/e1h32ankhsqZ073omY/WV7VIe89UCW scsr043XjXgl1IrBh3Oy+JMICRbzf4C60nK4LGS+xJbC74nUWDH1/bfo6fVSns/NMZ4X rOc1IfobFTREZGsUN0Kwz828qBvjEu7RZ1+3I= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.179.7 with SMTP id g7mr524239wem.64.1317703627793; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.132.80 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 21:47:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 21:47:07 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the most error resistant filesystem? From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: db3e00f54090fa9402e1e077d34338cf On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Oct 4, 2011 11:30 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> > Hello people! >> > >> > Now, I have the same question as this guy: >> > >> > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=3D66651 >> > >> > I.e., what is the most robust filesystem for Linux? >> > >> > The box will be used as a gateway/firewall for a branch office, so I >> > really >> > couldn't care less about filesystem performance. But the utility power >> > there >> > is horrendous, so I need something that can shrug off a catastrophic >> > power >> > loss, and/or very fast fsck. >> >> ISO9660? Read-only, error correction, and have logging go over the >> network to something else. >> >> (Well, ISO9660 isn't required; any read-only media with a read-only >> filesystem would probably do.) > > Indeed that thought occurred in my mind. But I still need to keep some lo= gs, > and have read-write access to /etc Set / to read-only and put /var in another partition. When you need to modify /etc, you remount / rw, modify, and then remount rw. A a gateway/firewall should not need config changes very often. With a ro filesystem, it doesn't really matter what filesystem do you use. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico