On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:40:53PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> Jacob Meuser wrote:
>
> > So, what happens to the data that's in RAM on it's way to the disk when
> > the crash happens. Lost I presume?
>
> Data that hasn't been written to disk is lost, yes. That's true no
> matter what filesystem you use.
>
If you're lucky, when BSD crashes, you get the ddb> prompt. Obviously
ain't going to happen in power failure. (What, no UPS?) Anyway, you
can give a "boot snyc" command, which syncs the disks. Or even better
"boot dump" which syncs the disks and dumps core before rebooting.
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