Preventing ext3 fsck at boot?

[Sandor W. Sklar]

On Sep 29, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Mike Kearey wrote:

> Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
> <snip>
>>>
>>> ext3 is best used on a RHEL4 system because it's what we develop,  
>>> test
>>> and support. That is a very important consideration. Note that  
>>> this does
>>> not mean it's the best one on a technical and theoretical or  
>>> performance
>>> standpoint.
>>
>> That is an interesting point, and one that I didn't consider.  All of
>> our RHEL systems are built from a local Satellite Server, but we have
>> bought a few "retail" licenses, for the purposes of support.  So,  
>> can I
>> take it that you're stating that if we were to have a problem with an
>> XFS, or Reiser filesystem, and opened a support case with it, we  
>> might
>> experience some issues?  That is an important point, so thanks ...  
>> that
>> does help inform our decision.
>
> A nice simple way to put it is 'We ship it, we support it'.
>  ext3 is all the things you want IMO :
>
> (a) reliability, (b) performance, and (c) ease of administrative  
> tasks.
> . A couple more (d)Long support cycle    (e) a good engineering and
> maintenance understanding of it from your vendor.

Yes, that all makes sense. It makes even more sense, as I poke around  
on one of my systems, and realize that XFS, and JFS, and ReiserFS are  
nowhere to be found.  :-)

That settles my question!  Ext3 it is!

Thanks again,
	-s-

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Sandor W. Sklar
Unix Systems Administrator
Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR)
Digital Libraries Systems & Services (DLSS)