[WBEL-users] Workstations pausing

[Ed]

James Knowles wrote:
> 
>>> I've read that reiserfs is better/faster for the types of files we use.
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> The other thing that I aught to point out, where you're using this 
> within a business environment, is that you want *data protection* more 
> than raw speed, unless losing data won't affect your business 
> whatsoever. ext3 is more robust this way with the default setting. 
> There's even one level of higher data protection from the default.

This is good advice.  What is the sound of one hand clapping?  Is it not 
a computer system which has no data?

> 
> I also hope that the filesystem is at least on soft RAID-1.

(OT: If you're using raid 5 with ext3, check out the software raid howto 
and benchmark your application with different stripe sizes.)

> 
> Even if the machine's on a UPS, a power outage is likely the only time 
> you'll discover that the UPS battery is dead. :-(

RAID is excellent insurance against disk failures, but if the power 
fails it's possible to get file corruption even with RAID and a 
journalling filesystem.  Make Back ups!  (Our site loses power about 
once a month.)

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