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Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems



On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:47:40AM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
> > Please post an /etc/fstab and the output of 'dumpe2fs -h' for one of 
> > your filesystems (considering that they have been created with same 
> > options).
> 
> I've attached related /etc/fstab and "dumpe2fs -h" outputs for R&D and
> PREPROD servers.

> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       	<dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults		0       0
> /dev/sda3       /               ext3    noatime			1       1
> /dev/sda4       /home           ext3    noatime,nodev,nosuid	0       2
> /dev/sda2	/boot		ext2	noatime,nodev,nosuid	1	1
> /dev/sda1       none            swap    sw              	0       0
> /dev/md0	/srv/fs		ext3	noatime,nodev,nosuid	0	2
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     	0       0

If you mount ext3 with the data=journal option you may have better
recovery.  See the man page.  data=journal is what ext3 used to do but
the default was changed to give better performance.

My experience with jfs was good.  I never had the system die (not be
able to recover) and I don't think I ever lost data (I too don't have a
UPS and I used to live where the power was very unreliable).  JFS
recovers fast (a design criteria).  However, do a google search on
lists.debian.org for JFS and read the thread where it has been
discussed.  In the midst of that thread, I received an email from the
maintainer of jfstools which forwarded an email from the one person at
IBM who is left to watch for bugs: he was recommended agains JFS for new
projects since IBM pulled the rest of his team off of JFS.  

Doug.


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