--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...>
wrote:

>
> derryck.welas wrote:
> > see your using XFS.
> > Try ext3 , used it for more than 3 years without a glitch and running
> > on fb2.0.3 (preparing for 2.1)
>
> Agreed. Because of the way they internally work, databases on
> filesystems like XFS and ReiserFS are more likely to get corrupt in

case

> of the power failure or system crash (kernel crash). Ext3 is almost
> unbreakable, even with forced writes off (because of the way it writes
> data to the disk). Even better alternative would be to skip the
> filesystem completely and use the raw partition (but that has some

other

> drawbacks). I plan to talk in more detail about all this at this year's
> Firebird Conference.
>
> Of course, if OP didn't have power failure or system crashes, something
> else might be the problem.
>
> --
> Milan Babuskov
> http://www.guacosoft.com
>

Is there similar issues using Firebird on JFS too?

Thanks.