On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If you want to avoid data loss at the cost of performance, don't do > any disk write caching. If I recall correctly, you can do this with > `hdparm -W 0'. > And using a journaled file system, such as ext3 or ext4, should improve the situation. If you feel more comfortable with old, proved filesystems, ext3 has been ready for production systems for quite some time. Best regards. -- Rodrigo