+++ Moz [2009-04-01 22:24:38]:

> Tricky question. People would swear by a file system as ideal. I have 
> read that ext4 has zero tolerance for powerouts and much greater chance 
> of it being corrupted in such circumstances, so it is out of question 
> for people like me.

Choosing a filesystem because it's "power outage resistant" is not logical at
all.  No file system is geared for power outages which is a physical failure. 
So singling out ext4 is bad because you can suffer just as bad a corruption
on a power outage on any filessytem.

An OS crash is a software event and filessytems can be geared to deal with
it, whereas a power outage is physical event and there is no way for software
to deal with it.

That's why you have things like UPS to ensure that your system goes for a
clean halt/suspend during a power outage.

Kingsly
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