Re: [SLUG] Protecting linux against loss of power

From: Levi Bard (taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com)
Date: Mon May 22 2006 - 12:20:46 EDT


> I have a customer who runs an application on Linux. Despite my repeated
> admonitions not to do so, they just turn off the machine without doing a
> proper shutdown. This has caused some issues for me and for them. Is there
> any way to "harden" Linux against this sort of behavior? Something that will
> prevent loss of data? Anything? Thanks.

Make sure they're not using reiserfs or xfs. I recommend ext3.

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