On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:12:59PM -0400, Jim typed:
I'm aware of nothing but a UPS can completely protect me from an
outage. I was just wondering why that ONE file system was misbehaving,
and the rest are prefectly fine - which seemed odd. Additionally, why
were files that are read, but not
Just a thought, but in normal circumstances files *are* written to,
even when they are just being read: the access time is updated (unless
you mount the fs with the noatime flag).
quite true, but isn't that file metadata and not the actual file? I
thought most filesystems had a file-entry
On Behalf Of Jim
Just a thought, but in normal circumstances files *are* written to,
even when they are just being read: the access time is updated
(unless
you mount the fs with the noatime flag).
quite true, but isn't that file metadata and not the actual file? I
thought most filesystems
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
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:30:38PM -0400, Jim wrote:
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
Ans set 'hw.ata.wc=0' in /boot/loader.conf to stop the drives from
caching writes.
it will GREATLY reduce write performance. not just a bit, but many times.
WRT softupdates/gjournal, see below.
In case of frequent power outages, I guess the right answer is get a
UPS. :)
it is definitely
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:05:51PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Ans set 'hw.ata.wc=0' in /boot/loader.conf to stop the drives from
caching writes.
it will GREATLY reduce write performance. not just a bit, but many times.
Of course. And mounting filesystems with sync will also reduce
In case of frequent power outages, I guess the right answer is get a
UPS. :)
Aye, I just got one. But for the longest time, it was a bit out of my
price range due to other priorities. Actually, the whole model line
was defective, so they are sending me a new one, and I have to wait
for it to
In response to Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm aware of nothing but a UPS can completely protect me from an
outage. I was just wondering why that ONE file system was misbehaving,
and the rest are prefectly fine - which seemed odd. Additionally, why
were files that are read, but not written, being
If the files themselves are disappearing, then it could be the directory
entry that's getting corrupted.
The files are there, but their content is corrupted.
Even if you're
not doing it directly, is your mp3 software writing temp or other
status files to that directory? If you're curious,
In response to Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If the files themselves are disappearing, then it could be the directory
entry that's getting corrupted.
The files are there, but their content is corrupted.
Well ... that seems to contradict my theory ...
Even if you're
not doing it directly, is
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
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
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