On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to build a rig like mine for my brother before to long. I know > there are lots of opinions on the net but want some personal experience > information on this. My brother does not have a UPS. I may can talk him > into getting one but not sure. What is a good file system that recovers > well from a improper shutdown? I use ext2, ext3 and reiserfs here but never > had a power problem, except when hal broke my stuff. I know XFS is not good > for this already from my own personal experience. > > Does anyone here have any personal experience on this? Just a 'I use this > and had a power failure and it powered up fine with no data loss' would be > nice. If this happened a lot and still worked, that would be even better. > > I'm not looking to start a turf war. This will be a plain old desktop so it > doesn't need a fancy file system, just one that recovers from a power > failure. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
Nothing much to say that others haven't said. I'm trying ext4 for the first time starting today. I ran across this page yesterday that might be of interest. I don't see anything specific to your question but maybe you will. Cheers, Mark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_comparison
