Re: OT - Journaling File Systems?

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:16:02PM +0200, Matias Feliciano wrote:
> Le mar 27/04/2004 à 19:03, Edwards, Scott (MED, Kelly IT Resouces) a
> écrit :
> > First I tested ext3.  A normal bootup was about 21 seconds.  A bootup
> > after a 'plug pull' was usually about 40 seconds, but a couple of times
> > it was only 22 seconds (this does not include the 5 second wait which I
> > have to remove - since in actual operation it won't have a keyboard or
> > screen).  I never saw any error/warning messages or data corruption.
> > Other than doubling the bootup time most of the time it was good.
> 
> Experiment some little problems with FC2 test1. But since FC2 test2 no
> problem.
> 
> Note that some IDE disk don't support power down and write at the same
> time.

hdparm supports turning off ide write cache although this has a performance
hit.