David Maxwell wrote:

>>Linux(*) defaults to EXT2FS, async(metadata)/async(data). This means

> I'm not aware of which Linux distributions are shipping IBM or SGI
> derivative filesystems by default - hence, "Each must be tweaked by the
> sysadmin".

It should be noted, though, that some newer distributions (such as 
RedHat) ship with ext3fs as default, which adds metadata logging and 
thus might be a bit safer.

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