[Tfug] Filesystem/Distro suggestions?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> I've hit the reset button A LOT on this box since rebuilding with XFS
> on RAID1 and Ubuntu, versus Ext3 non-raid on Redhat Fedora.  My
> empirical observations follow:
> 
> This setup is MUCH, MUCH more stable than the previous when recovering
> from crashes.

I have had similar experience on a couple different hardware running 
Ubuntu the past couple months. I frequently (several times a week) had 
file system problems and crashes. When I switched to XFS the problems 
disappeared.