On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 05:02:03 -0700, peter johnson wrote:
>Puh-leez!
>Use flush(2) after each write of critical data and the imagined disaster
>will not occur. I wonder where "decision makers" get their
>disinformation???
I'm sure that all those people working on riserfs and ext3 will be happy to know that
you
have solved all thier problems with one system call. *grin*
Sure the chance of corruption is small to begin with. I have a router/DNS/mail/news
(lots of
disk IO) machine in my house that has lived solely on grid power without a UPS for
close to
4 years now. And the only fs failure I have had was when the SCSI drive failed. But
I
daresay it exists. I have had personal experience with it in a FAT based fs. If your
system needs to be truly able to deal with power outages then the addition of an UPS,
A
supercap, or a small 12V backup battery will make that chance far smaller than the
chance of
a mechancial HD failure and probally on par with the MTBF of a CF.
--
Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 501.846.5777
Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
--
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the command "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the message body.
For more information, see <http://waste.org/mail/linux-embedded>.
