[KLUG Members] issues with AOL

[Bryan-TheBS-Smith]

> Fortunately, Linux is VERY GOOD about power outages.  AEP left
> us in the dark for 50 minutes the other day. Linux / Novell 1
> - Windows - 0. Six  machines had problems restarting....
> Needless to say, it made for an interesting morning.

As a longtime NT admin, I personally get sick and tired of all the BS
MCSE's throw around about Linux's "lack of a journaling filesystem." 
I've seen more than one NTFS volume toast itself by going to a journal
that was incomplete.  NTFS is "too aggressive" in recovery -- and you
_never_ want to be "too aggressive" when it comes to recovering a
filesystem -- no matter the time savings.  I often find myself rebooting
NT after a crash with a _forced_ chkdsk.

Ext2 is very, very, _very_ reliable, despite the fsck times.  It's
probably why I'm partial to Ext3 (since it's still Ext2 underneath).  I
find early, full-data journaling-only Ext3 releases on kernel 2.2.x
_very_reliable_ (been using them for about 18 months now -- RedHat 6.2
w/VALinux's kernel 2.2.16 for internal file servers).  Kernel 2.4 is a
different story, and I don't totally trust Ext2 (let alone Ext3) on
kernel 2.4 yet (because of the VM subsystem changes).  I use XFS instead
and SGI's installer makes it cake to install alongside RedHat.

-- TheBS

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Bryan "TheBS" Smith    mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org    chat:thebs413
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