On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 01:14:46 +0200, Fredric Fredricson wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> What fs would you recommend for CF? My employer hesitates
>> to move from DOS, guessing ext2 would be more vulnerable to
>> data corruption and power cycles.
>>
>If he likes DOS that much, why don't you let him have it?
>Probably still have to boot from ext2, though.
Well it dosen't matter what filesystem you use if you drop power the instant the disk
is
writing then you are going to see corruption. The only way around that is a UPS. Now
certain filesystems may recover better than others but they are all open to corruption
on a
power loss if you are doing a lot of writeing. A $60 UPS can go a long way to help in
that
respect.
Also syslinux will let you boot from a msdos filesystem. That how the Debian boot
disks
work. Another alternative that I use on lots of dual boot machines is loadlin. You
could
put that in the autoexec but you would have to use freedos to keep yourself out of MS
licensing issues.
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