On 08/04/2008, Andrew Edwards <edwards.andrew(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Cheers for those Andrew :-) I'm having some interesting reading right now :-) For starters, what I don't want is a journalling file system for the system stuff. I intend on having a spare compact flash card to run the main system. All the actual data (whether it's music or video or even textual documents - though I may set up a separate server for the documents) will go onto good old fashioned hard drives. Again, however, I don't think I'll need a journalling file system for this as it will/should be a pretty much write to disk once and then purely accessing rather than multiple read/writes. I also have to think about the compact flash drive. It's mentioned often (and I did know but it had passed to the back of my memory) that solid state drives only have a limited number of read write accesses. So, I will need to keep those down (noatime me thinks). One last question for now...'Hardened'? You've gone into the realms of the unknown there. Can you expand on it for me :-) please? -- ============================================== Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire

On 08/04/2008, Andrew Edwards <edwards.andrew(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Ah, now I understand :-) I thought you were on about some special quality of a file system :-)))) I'm actually running Debian testing (I can't remember its Toy Story name) on a PC in my workshop so I don't mind treading shallow water... However, in this particular case (the server I want to set up) I shall definitely be using a 'hardened' or well tested and secure fs for both OS and data storage. -- ============================================== Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire