It is interesting to watch this thread. The most interesting thing is the fact that no one has asked or answered the basic question: is there a problem? There are a lot of solutions for what may be a complete non-issue.
Given that Linux and BSD are reliable and stable on standard PC platforms connected to mains power without a UPS, that suggests to me that there is likely no issue. Sure, back in the bad ol' days you had to sync;sync;sync the filesystem prior to shutdown and then, if there had been a power fail, fsck it on power up. But those days have been gone for a LONG time. The modern filesystems reduce the exposure to the possibility of file system corruption to a tiny probability, and then the system further reduces that by providing a power-fail detection system that allows the critical pending writes to be flushed prior to final power-fail, thus leaving the FS in a completely deterministic state. I suppose that on the night of a full moon when the lightning flashes and the dog barks, conditions might be right to corrupt the file system, but then, that could happen when the battery goes dead or catches fire too. ;-) It seems to me that the bard put it pretty well, "... much ado about nothing." -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 706 Flightline Drive Spring Branch, TX 78070 br...@lloyd.com +1.916.877.5067 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.