Reliable file system?

[Carsten Gaebler]

Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:51 -0300, Marcelo Magno T Sales wrote:
>>Sorry! I'm using ext3. Thought it's journal would be more efficient 
>>than it has been.
> 
> 
> A kludge you might try depending on the application you are running is
> to try and flush the buffers to disk more often.  Believe you can use
> the sync command to do that.  Possibly in a cron job.

Better mount the filesystem with the sync option. Then every write goes 
directly to the disk bypassing the filesystem buffers. If possible, also 
turn off the disk's write cache (or set it to write-through). Together 
with ext3's data journalling mode, this should give you the most 
reliability you can get - and the worst performance. :-)

cg.