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[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.