Re: [Server-devel] anaconda deletes /fsckoptions on F9 based XS

2008-09-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How often are you actually getting to having fsck questions? Hi Jeremy, good question. In the field, the XS machines never get switched off - they are headless, and set in the bios to auto-switch-on. Most of them will be in

Re: [Server-devel] anaconda deletes /fsckoptions on F9 based XS

2008-09-17 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:49:22PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: good question. In the field, the XS machines never get switched off - they are headless, and set in the bios to auto-switch-on. Most of them will be in locations with unreliable power - so they will switch off when power gets

Re: [Server-devel] anaconda deletes /fsckoptions on F9 based XS

2008-09-17 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:49:22PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: good question. In the field, the XS machines never get switched off - they are headless, and set in the bios to auto-switch-on. Most of them will be in locations with unreliable power - so they will switch off when power gets

Re: [Server-devel] anaconda deletes /fsckoptions on F9 based XS

2008-09-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have run servers like this for a few years with ext3. I was surprised how well it worked. I never got anything resembling file system corruption. ext3 worked like a charm. Good to hear! What tended to fail was the