Reliable file system?

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Marcelo Magno T Sales <marcelo.sales at sefaz.pe.gov.br> said:
> Sorry! I'm using ext3. Thought it's journal would be more efficient 
> than it has been.

The normal use of a journal is to prevent file _system_ corruption (e.g.
keep the directories all pointing to the right files and such).  That
doesn't help prevent files from having corrupted contents.

However, ext3 does also offer a data journaling mode that might help (at
the expense of performance).  See "man tune2fs" and look at the
journal_data option.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.