[sclug] Well, *that's* not supposed to happen...

[Andy Hayward]

On 5/24/07, Will Dickson <wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas why this might have happened? AIUI ext3 is
> supposed to be ultra-reliable, which is why I went for it. All I know
> is, I never had anything like this from FAT32 :-/

Ext3 supports three different types of journal types, 'writeback',
'ordered' and 'journal'.  While 'ordered' is the usual default I'd
suggest switching to 'journal' for your backups.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8.html for more info.

-- ach