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 cut.
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. What tended to fail was the RAID1 set up. For some reason, the volumes got unsync'd and had to be reassembled manually. But after issuing 'mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/foo' by hand, then it worked fine. The only other problem was actual hard drive failure. But there is nothing we can do about that anyway. -- American? Vote on the National Initiative for Democracy, http://votep2.us _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
