[plug] formatting new external usb hardrive

[Craig Ringer]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 07:11 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 19:18 +0800, Sol wrote:
> 
> Personnel comment - avoid ext3 if theres any chance of a premature
> powerdown/unplug:

Wow, you have staff!

> I changed back to reiserfs, and after a couple of
> crashes/resets theres still no errors, unlike what has happened with
> ext3.  ext3 has a data=journelled option which may help in some cases.

reiserfs only does metadata journalling, similar to ext3. My
understanding is that you should not get filesystem corruption if a
write is unexpectedly interrupted, but you MAY get data loss or
corruption.

ext3's data=journal mode, if it actually works now, might be interesting
- but probably rather slow.

-- 
Craig Ringer