> Is it just me that's wondering, but why do you need a journaling filesystem for a firewall that runs in RAM? I can understand (I guess) if you are using it for a stripped down server application like smtp server, or whatever....but I was under the impression that a journaling filesystem's best attribute was crash recovery because of the way it writes to disk. For a database app server, or smtp server, I can see the benefits. But, again, as a router that loads a minimal filesystem, why go to the bother?
The sort answer is because I wanted to play with it :) With the fact that reiserfs killed ext2 support as a module, and the user-space filesystem tools won't compile against the older glibc used, this is rapidly looking like the proverbial *bad idea*, so the whole experiment is being shelved until I start on a disto with a 2.2.4 kernel and modern libc... There *are* a bunch of valid reasons to run a journaling filesystem on a thin server, and I do use my disto's for more than just firewalls, but for a router, JFFS is probably more important than something like reiserfs or ext3. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel