nfs and ext2 option for maximum relyability

[Jeff Moyer]

==> Regarding Re: nfs and ext2 option for maximum relyability; Alan Robertson <alanr@suse.com> adds:

alanr> Don't use ext2.  It isn't very robust with respect to crashes.
alanr> Using ReiserFS or ext3 would be an improvement.  They would also
alanr> improve your fsck times :-) If you can live with the performance
alanr> hit, ext3's data journalling would be better (but I'm not sure how
alanr> ready it is).

    Hmm, for an HA environment, you're suggesting that a filesystem that
    has been tried and tested for many years be dropped in favor of new
    filesystems in experimental stages.  I'm not so sure I agree with you
    here.  Granted, fsck times are a problem, but I'm not as confident in
    ext3 and reiserfs as you seem to be.

    As for ext3's data journalling, it was present before there was
    metadata-only journalling.  The tricky bits of implementing journalling
    were limiting it to just metadata, not the other way 'round.

Warmest Regards,

Jeff