From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the most error resistant filesystem?
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:23:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2Merba=DM5do8akAsrs8hoyua2ByS2t6uEpFXxRhCkNdA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGWz3kunX7xKNyw8oE1wPUHVW1YjV_SpbAATy9OTCzJb5A@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> 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.
I've lost XFS and JFS filesystems in the past due to their failure to
recover after sudden power loss. Ext3/4 have not failed me (yet).
But my question is, why don't you use a UPS and monitoring software to
perform a proper (clean) shutdown when power's off and battery is
running low. Some UPS also support automatic power-on once things are
normal again, in case this is an unattended box that locals can't be
bothered with rebooting themselves.
I can think of making a complicated system with read-only boot media
(cd/dvd/mmc/whatever) which attempts recovery of important data (logs
created since last backup) to a spare partition, RAM drive or the
Internet, then repartitions & reinstalls itself to the harddrive and
restores the recovered data. Optionally downloading updated configs
from Internet. (think kiosk distros).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-04 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-04 3:47 [gentoo-user] What is the most error resistant filesystem? Pandu Poluan
2011-10-04 4:25 ` Michael Mol
2011-10-04 4:34 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-04 4:47 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04 4:27 ` Hilco Wijbenga
2011-10-04 4:54 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-04 5:23 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-10-07 16:06 ` Diego Augusto Molina
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