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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system?
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:07:34
Message-Id: 7573e9640607181757u227f8816nf8936afe81ba8be8@mail.gmail.com
1 On 7/18/06, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
2 > Yes, it's well known that XFS sucks with unexpected power loss, Reiser
3 > and JFS less so. ext3 remains the most reliable filesystem.
4
5 Yeah, I can't deny that.
6
7 Fortunately for my laptop, "unexpected power loss" is never an issue.
8 Lockups still are though, so I make sure to build with SysRq support.
9 I would guess that in 99% of cases where a hard reset is necessary,
10 Alt-SysRq-s (emergency sync) and Alt-SysRq-u (remount read-only) still
11 work. I just have to remember to wait until the disk light goes out
12 before Alt-SysRq-b (reboot). I forgot once, and my running VMWare
13 session lost its config file and corrupted its disk image!
14
15 It also helps to fiddle with the vm and xfs sysctl settings so that
16 XFS doesn't sit there with unsync'd data that is 10-20 minutes old!
17
18 -Richard
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