EXT3 problem with Fedora 10

[securitybreach01]

[background]
I work for a company that engineers Motor Control Centers for Oil rigs. I am trying to design a fedora industrial computer to put on the rigs. All the computer needs to do is boot up and display a java page in firefox. it is also uses a touch screen monitor. I have everything working perfectly. except for the the fact that these computers never get shutdown properly. They only get the power turned off to them when the rig is moved to a new location. and getting the users to properly shutdown the computer is not an option.

[problem]
from doing testing in my office, after a couple of times of unplugging the computer and not shutting it down properly. the EXT3 file system freaks out and becomes unusable.

[question]
Does anybody know of a way to make fedora 10 more industrial so it can take the abuse of not being shutdown properly?

I dont want to have to go back to using windows for these systems. only thing is windows can do this no problem.

[HROAdmin26]

EXT3 file system freaks out and because unusable

Is this a technical term? Seriously, what is that supposed to mean?

Is there corruption that makes the system unbootable? Is bootup halted and a manual fsck is forced?

My own opinion would be to use a better, natively-journaled filesystem such as Reiser (smaller files) or XFS (bigger files.) EXT4 has also been released but is still considered beta, so it may/may not be an option.

Depending on what the *actual* issue is, you can test another filesystem, change fstab so that an FS check is not done at bootup, etc.

[securitybreach01]

sorry typo, i ment to say "becomes* unusable". and i'm sure you know what they EXT3 file system is.

yes the file system becomes corupted and unbootable. first the boot up is stopped and i am asked to do a fsck. and after fsck. it comes unbootable.

Thanks for the info

[securitybreach01]

does anybody know how to mount the / as read only?

I have changed it in fstab but it doesn't seem to take affect.