Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
On Monday 04 June 2001 23:42, Sean Morgan wrote:
>
> The situation I'm reffering to here is that of someone who might see a
> temporary interface slowdown or crash(happen quite often in office suites
> of any kind), and having no knowledge of how linux works, just hits the
> reset button(this could easily get repeated a whole bunch of times
> throughout the day in a school environment, and would do all kinds of nasty
> things to the fs). The background you seem to be coming from is some kind
> of server farm or similar setup where the users are all at least competent
> enough not to do lots of hard resets. Generally speaking, Linux with ext2
> is probably the worst OS I've ever worked with for recovering from mundane
> stuff like that, but I do agree with you that it is much better than most
> as far as low instance of failure due to actual bugs within the filesystem
> are concerned. I don't see how RAID mirroring is an option though, as it
> would only serve to guard against mechanical failure, which is sort of
> beyond the ability of a filesystem to affect one way or the other.
Wouldn't the ReiserFS help with this, being that it's journalled? I don't
know much about it, having only recently moved to it. But in BeOS, which
also has a journalled file system, doing a hard reset, or cutting the power,
had no noticeable effect on the system.
- Ed
Reply to: