David Freeman wrote:
if you are talking about systems which need 500+ days of uptime, then It has to be 2.2 as 2.4 hasn't been tested for that long ;)..
It only has to last 90 days. But it needs to be reliable and boot quickly. Also it needs to have a journelling filesystem of somekind.
one of our production servers had 2.4.2 on with over 60 days uptime, then we had to reboot to stick in another disk.. I suspect 2.4.x (where x >= 2) will last 90 days without any problems... reiserfs is in 2.4.x
2)What would people recommend in the way of journelling file
systems?
I use reiserfs, but it really depends on what you want to do... Neill
How well does that take to being shat upon, i.e. have reboots/powerloss during writes etc...?
imho, it copes very well, I'm no journeling expert, but it seems to do the job well enough for our machines. A reboot after a powerfailure takes only a few seconds longer than a reboot without a powerfailure ;)..
Neill