[ale] Best FS to use when doing unclean shutdowns?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Mon Jul 11 13:23:39 EDT 2005


Claudia Morlan wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We are trying to setup a system that will need to be hard shutdown when
> it's
> deployment time is over (~1-3weeks).
> It may be rebooted during this time as well via the power button.
> 
> What is the best FS to use for this type of scenario?  There will not be
> any
> KVM attached to this device.  Also, we are planning on at least 1
> partition
> to be encrypted on this machinve as well.  Currently it is using Ext2
> and
> doesn't seem to have had a problem yet with hard shutdowns/etc.

I don't know that there is a file system that I would trust to be able 
to recover from a power button shutdown time after time.  I would expect 
that regardless of the fs, eventually, you're going to trash something.

Is there no other possible solution?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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