Hi Alex, There is a significant chance that ext2 will be out of sync - but it's not like it's guaranteed to fail.
I haven't played here for awhile but ... Dirty file-system buffers are flushed every 30 seconds by pdflush (by default). Therefore what you stand to lose is the data between the last flush and a crash. The Linux Programmer's Toolbox, p281, talks to this a bit. There are probably other better sources. YMMV, J.J. On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 00:54 -0700, Alex wrote: > Hey, all i am looking for some advice, i use my Macbook pro as my > primary laptop and would like to have an external drive that is > Read/Writable by OSX/Linux/Windows any suggestions?.. i'm looking for > something better then FAT32 but i think im asking for to much > already.. > > it would be nice if Apple and Microsoft would agree apon a open source > standard file system for 3rd party drives.. i hate using FAT on any > thing over 100gb > > Also can any one clear up some misconceptions i might have on EXT2.. > i heard if you are using EXT2 and the power goes.. that there is a > GOOD chance the partition of the drive would be corrupted.. > is this true? is it really more volitile then FAT? > > one of the reasons i ask is there is a EXT2 kernel mod for OSX so i > COULD use an ext2 filesystem on my external hardrives.. > > Also i have been thinking of investing into a NAS to solve alot of > these delema's granted its not as portable, but if i could find a NAS > that supports USB drives with ext3 this would solve ALOT of my > problems... > > suggestions? > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
