Reliable file system?

[Marcelo Magno T Sales]

Hi,

> 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. :-)
>

Thank you all very much for your excellent suggestions. I'll tune ext3 
to work with full journal and take a look at the sync mount option 
while I wait for the UPS.

[]'s
Marcelo