[ale] Best FS to use when doing unclean shutdowns?

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 13:46 -0400, Claudia Morlan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The encrypted partition is currently formatted as Ext2 with loop-AES.
> It needs to be r/w whenever the system is on.  Is there any better way
> than we currently have it set up?

Why does the system have to be hard cycled?

> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Christopher Fowler
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:38 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Best FS to use when doing unclean shutdowns?
> 
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 13:30 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > Ext3
> > 
> > I stand by my statement. :)  Journal filesystems will certainly have a
> 
> > better chance of recovering lost data, but none of them are perfect.
> At 
> > least not as good as a proper shutdown.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I agree.  He asked the best FS.  In these cases I uses a ext2 in RO mode
> and symlink everything that has to be R/W in a tmpfs.  A pile of work
> but makes a system that does not barf.
> 
> 
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