On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I have a computer that is in a situation where it is losing power >> occasionally. All but one of the filesystems are going along fine. >> Once file system seems to lose data on a power outage. Even if it only >> reads a file, and doesn't write it, it may still lose a file (ex, >> about half the audio files on my xmms playlist, a couple data files in >> my wine directory that, to my knowledge, are unlikely to be written >> after they are first installed). >> >> What I'd like to do is get an output of the flags and options on my >> filesystems to see what is different between that filesystem and the >> others. Any suggestion on how to do that? This particular FS has >> lasted through several rebuilds since it doesn't hold OS critical >> stuff, just data files. > > tunefs -p and/or dumpfs -m > >> Any suggestions? > > Sounds like you're on the right track with hunting this down. Perhaps > turn softupdates off and mount the filesystem sync if you're seeing > lots of power outages. > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com >
Thanks, it looks like the 'good' filesystems have softupdates off (except one), and the one the broke has it off. I thought softupdates were supposed to fix this? Is gjournal a better solution? Is 'just use neither' a better solution? Any reference material on the subject would be appreciated (I'm about to use google now). Thanks, -Jim Stapleton _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
