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

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 21:45 +0100, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> 
> Do be careful about using and relying on hdparm, however.  A while back,
> LiveJournal got bit because of hardware that would say "We're not write
> buffering, honest!" well, lo and behold, their drives were write
> buffering.  There was *still* lossage, and they use journalling
> filesystems and transactionalized databases.
> 
Yep! Hence the cron'ed sync...

I don't trust computers. I just admin them...
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