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Re: ReiserFS on a Firewall [was: Building Debian firewall]



On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:43:29PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed wrote:
> I have been following this thread with a great deal of interest since I
> plan to build a Debian-based firewall on an old P166 system. Its an
> intriguing idea to run ReiserFS on a firewall system.

It is even better to have a read only file system, any will do. And for the
log partition you ca´ eighter log to a remote system or have mke2fs at
startup. reiserfs has a pretty bad fsck, so íf the journalling fails, you
are pretty hossed. I woud not consider it stable. 

Greetings
Bernd
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