> 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)



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