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Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch (Debian

Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch (Debian

Posted Apr 26, 2006 0:54 UTC (Wed) by hawk (subscriber, #3195)
In reply to: Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch (Debian by khim
Parent article: Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch (Debian Administration)

On the other hand, with machines with terabytes of data and high load, one might consider having UPS... :-)


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Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch (Debian

Posted Apr 26, 2006 1:10 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

So why have journalling filesystems at all? So much development time.... just wasted. And all we needed to do was buy a UPS! ;-)

Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch (Debian

Posted Apr 26, 2006 15:15 UTC (Wed) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

Certainly consider it, but a UPS doesn't do much in the presence of a short on the MB, or all power supplies failing, or even the power connector on the hard drive coming loose, etc....

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