begin quoting David Brown as of Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:10:47AM -0700: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:03:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Booting got stuck on fsck which gave me a heart attack. I recovered with a > >Knoppix CD. > > Which filesystem are you using? I haven't lost a filesystem due to a > power outage in well over a decade. Power surges, on the other hand.... :)
> Now, kernel panics that scribble dirty buffers all over the disk > randomly will still do it :-) > > >Why can't Linux always survive power outages? I would think this is > >common. I can't imagine everyone would know to use Knoppix. > > I think you're doing something unusual here. Do you at least 'sync' > before suspend? You can put 'sync' in cron. You can take the performance hit and mount the filesystem synchronously. You can split up your disk so that key tools like fsck and other necessary files for booting are on a small partition that isn't likely to get corrupted. Or you can run fast and loose and risky and all high-performance and crap, and then take your knocks when the die don't roll in your favor. > >I've seen Windows machines that get abused and improperly shutdown all the > >time. They always seem to recover. > > Not always. They fall over on their own, who would notice a problem that had a cause? -- The old sparky appears to have a flaky video system, and locks up hard. Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
