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

[Claudia Morlan]

Its purpose is information gathering and will be deployed blindly.  As
such, once it is installed we will not touch the box until it is
removed.  This is an embedded device and has no soft-off button only a
power switch.

Thanks. 

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Christopher Fowler
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:49 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Best FS to use when doing unclean shutdowns?

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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