Re: Building Debian firewall

["Arne P. Boettger" <apb@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

Hello,

> > sounds all good BUT I would *STRONGLY* recomend you do *NOT*, I repeat, do
> > *NOT* use reiserFS on a firewall box.  My boxes are potato with minimal
> > packages installed.  I wrote my own script using iptables and other usefull
> > packages.

Just WHY do you so strongly argument against reiserFS on a Firewall?
My experience with it so far was good, and it is definitely good for
a firewall to be as least touchy about power outages and the fastest
to recover from them, and for this a journaling filesystem is afaik
the ideal choice.

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Ciao, Arne.
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