On 19 Feb 2002 at 11:16, Darryl VanDorp wrote:

> My preference would be a journaling filesystem
> over the ones you mentioned and ext2 over
> NTFS just 'cause i like linux better.

Once upon a time Lilya Kozlenko said that NT4 with NTFS
can rollback a couple of filesystem transactions after a
hard failure (reset, trap and so on). If any file was
created or extended just before the crash, these changes
would disappear and DB file could be unrecoverable damaged.
So, FAT could be a more reliable choice. Besides, FAT is a
bit faster because of the lack of overhead to journaling.
She also said that a raw device is the best choice.
BTW IB can be made to work with raw devices under Linux,
where a raw device can be represented as a file.

SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.