[Techtalk] Re: Tried fsck'ing it...

[Carla Schroder]

Raven, corporate courtesan writes: 

> Heya -- 
> 
> 	Forwarded on behalf of Kai MacTane.  > 
> 	I know that journaling filesystems are supposed to be superior
> at this sort of error handling, but the machine in question is a P-133
> with 64 megs of RAM.  Can that handle ReiserFS or ext3?  Would those
> save him from similar horror stories in the future?  He *just* spent
> three days rebuilding this box; he'll reinstall it again if necessary,
> but wants to make sure that if he does that, he won't have this same
> problem again if the box suddenly loses power. 
> 
> 	Any help gratefully passed on to Kai.  Thanks in advance. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Raven 
> 

http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/index.html#toc
Red Hat's ext3 whitepaper, which doesn't address the issue of system 
requirements. I don't believe it would bog down his machine, it's very 
configurable, and writes don't eat up much CPU or RAM. A slow hard drive 
might make a difference, in theory. 

I have several low-end servers upgraded to ext3, and I can't tell any 
performance difference. I've not run any benchmarks, but users are not 
complaining, which to me is the best benchmark. 

It's certainly less hassle than restoring a trashed system. I think the most 
important thing is to use SOME kind of journaling filesystem! So far my 
experiences with ext3 are positive. I've not tried any others. 

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