Thanks Denis
I appreciate you writing back.
Talking about what has happened to your network
definitely answers some questions. (Also some others
have written and seen the same thing)
I guess it is not as widespread as the sampling from
the list indicated.
Bambi
Denis HAVLIK wrote:
> :~>I am not sure what you are referring to here.
> :~>We had a power outage and I was all worried because
> :~>everyone talks about what happens when you don't
> :~>cleanly boot out of Linux, but it came back up fine.
> :~>It forces a 'scan' of the Linux partitions, but they come
> :~>back 'passed'.
>
> Once in a while it can happen that you have to run fsck manually and
> answer "yes" to all its question. It can happen that you loose a file or
> two in a proces -> parts of the files end-up in /lost-and-found dir.
>
> The reason for this is always the same: no journaling system, therefore if
> system crashes in the middle of writing a file, we have a problem. Same
> problem exists on vfat, I do not know about NTFS.
>
> This could lead to problems, If you have been editing /etc/fstab at the
> moment of crash, but usually it is just a minor nuisance. During last 6
> years, I have managed a small cluster of linux machines at university
> of Vienna. These machines were never shut down unless we got power
> problems. In this time, our building was hit by a lightning twice, which
> caused total electricity loss, and burn-up of some network cards. During
> last 2 years, there were intensive renovation works in the building, and
> workers have repeteately cut of power cables (network cables too,
> including the backbone once). All-in-all, a rather hard working
> enviroment, and in all this time I actually saw that few files were lost
> only once - did rpm -Va, and reinstalled the package.
>
> :~>We sometimes lose power here with electrical storms.
> :~>
> :~>What situation does it have to be for it not to come back?
>
> Good question. Maybe he thought "does not automatically come back again,
> which is something you will see every time fsck finds a problem which
> COULD lead to loss of some data, and refuses to work non-interactively.
>
> Btw: with onset of new yournaling filesystems (ReiserFS, ext3), this
> will soon be a non-issue anyway.
>
> :~>> As much as I dislike Windows, I can always count on Windows
> :~>> coming back from this kind of situation. It will complain, run
> :~>> scandisk, and come back up. You might have some application
> :~>> files corrupted, but at least the OS will run.
>
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