I totally agree with several answers here.
We have used Linux in z for more than 10 years and I can not remember any 
filesystem corrupt (unless I messed it up myself:)  )
SLES8-SLES11, ext2,ext3,jfs and xfs all works fine.
But some has better options, rezise online and such nice things.

/Tore

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Tore Agblad 
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Volvo Information Technology 
Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development, Linux servers 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David 
Boyes
Sent: den 16 december 2011 20:58
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ext3...

> and when i think about it all features and messages i get implies that fsck is
> "normal". other than mounting a FS in 2 places (and other stuff like
> that)  i do not expect FS corruption ever.
> all i am trying to say is that i expected more of linux and it looks 
> different.

Linux is pretty close to state of the art -- *for the Unix world.* AIX, HP-UX 
and Solaris are not much (if any) better.  Tandems are better -- but they're 
not mainstream Unix *at all* and they're *really* weird. 

Linux isn't (and won't ever be) as reliable as z/OS, and it won't progress in 
that direction(at least for a very, very long time) until we start demanding 
very detailed instrumentation capabilities that it took z/OS more than 40 years 
to acquire. We're dealing with different design points, and at the moment, 
"good enough" is exactly that. 

As I commented in my other note (and others agreed), the corruption you're 
seeing is not normal to Linux; it's something going on in your environment that 
is doing something behind Linux' back. I'd concentrate your effort on killing 
that problem.  

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