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On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:58 AM,
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Today's Topics:
Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Lin [ Stan Hoeppner
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Re: Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' home server [ Pinguim Ribeiro
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Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CO [ Stan Hoeppner
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Re: scrollbar on left side[ Roel Schroeven
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Re: ping packet loss when size gt 15 [ Chris Davies
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Re: I can't get the Linux kernel RDS [ =?iso-8859-1?q?Camale=F3n?=
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restricting number of user logins [ Mag Gam magaw...@gmail.com ]
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:48:57 -0500
From: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]
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Volkan YAZICI put forth on 10/21/2010 5:04 AM:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI yazic...@ttmail.com writes:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes:
What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the
plug?
Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible to
hose the
filesystem to the point it couldn't mount. Were you doing a resize
operation
when you pulled the plug? xfs_growfs? As far as recovery, it's
automatic
upon mounting the XFS filesystem. What do you mean, precisely, by
couldn't
*recover* the / fs?
Vanilla XFS with noatime,notail like basic mount options. The test was
simple, I was just typing SELECT 1 from a psql command line (this
query shouldn't even hit to disk, it just basically returns 1) and
unplugged machine. At boot, I dropped to fsck command line. At command
prompt, I manually fiddled around with fsck of xfs to recover the
unmounted / filesystem, but had no luck. (I also tried recommendations
and informative messages supplied by manpages and command
outputs/warnings.) Also if you would Google, it shouldn't be hard to
spot similar experiences from other people.
Another scenario, same failure. I have a squeeze installed notebook and
having troubles with X. It crashes for some driver specific reasons and
I need to hard-reset the notebook. 1-2 times I found WindowMaker missing
its workspaces, and I didn't have time to inspect the problem. Now I
lost all of my Opera bookmarks (~500 collected in years). Thanks XFS,
but no, you're not power-failure. (BTW, I kill -9ed Opera many times,
and it restored all of its settings properly. I don't think it is an
Opera or WindowMaker related bug.)
Open your files with O_PONIES and all your filesystem problems will
magically disappear.
Please educate yourself by reading this http://lwn.net/Articles/351422/
and then reply to your own comments above.
Actually, anyone reading this post should read the article and comments
at that link. There is way too much misinformation running around and
too many people taking positions publicly (especially on this list) that
are 180 degrees opposite of fact with regard to correct/proper
filesystem behavior.
--
Stan
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:48:52 + (UTC)
From: Pinguim Ribeiro pinguim.ribe...@gmail.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' home server - Installation guide
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lee lee at yun.yagibdah.de writes:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 08:25:03PM +, Pinguim.ribeiro wrote:
I mean the popularity-contest depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent,
packages to be installed later and not by the debian installer.
You would select to install exim4-daemon-heavy anyway, along with
clamav and spamassassin. The installer installs these for you, but
it´s up to you to set them up.
I'll install postfix: easy to setup and integrates clamav and
spamassassin too
If you need IMAP, you´d install courier-imap (if you don´t want to use
cyrus). I haven´t tried courier-imap yet, but it seems to be pretty
much the only IMAP server that supports maildir.
I'm using dovecot: it also supports maildir
Having that said, once you have set up a minimal system capable of
