The reason: if the power cord is yanked, the OS _must_ boot back up in good condition. If the DB is corrupted, whatever, nuke it then re- initialize it. But the OS must survive act-of-god events.
Well, in that case : - Use reiserfs3 for your disks - Use MySQL with MyISAM tables
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