On 09/29/2015 10:28 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: >> From: Bill Bogstad [mailto:bogs...@pobox.com] >> >> While some OSes/filesystems handle power interruption well at this >> point, it seems to me that there are lots of apps/servers which do not >> and which people still need to use. Particularly in a VM environment >> where you might be running legacy OS/app combinations because you >> can't replace them, it seems to me that suggesting this method as a >> generic way to backup VMs is not really appropriate. Sure we should >> all replace our old software systems with ones that use transactions >> to protect against this kind of failure, but I don't think we are >> there yet. > > I haven't seen an OS, Filesystem, or a daemon, it at least 15 years, that > couldn't gracefully survive a power interruption. Except ownCloud. ;-)
Not a power failure, but twice in the last 6 months I had a random reboot that left me unable to mount my root btrfs partition until I booted into a live CD to run 'btrfs check'. I've been trying out using subvolumes instead of partitions, but next reinstall I'm going back to ext4. I suppose it's possible that it was the btrfs error that caused the random reboot, not the other way around, but that's hardly better. Chris _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
