Hi, 
 
I need to make a netbsd 1.6.1 box ready for an envirionment without people 
arround. There's only an network connection with telnet, no keyboard or 
whatever. So I need to prepare the box to ensure it will always stand by. 
(except hardware errors of course). I'm about to make a hardware watchdog to 
reset the box if the OS would hang for whatever reason. 
 
One thing is that I already got problems with coming back after a temporary 
power supply fail. Before mounting the partitions fsck found a partition 
inconsistent and falls back into a single-user mode without telnet or 
network connection. Something I absolutely don't want to happen. 
Is there a way to ensure the system won't stop booting because of this kind 
of problems?  
I use the standard ffs format, I assume it's an FS without journalling. 
Could it be better to choose a fs with journalling like ext3? I have good 
experiences with ext3 using linux. ReiserFS is bad in my expirience, after 
a system failure the reiserfs partition was found unusable. 
 
Thanks for help, 
 
Bastiaan Welmers