David Lloyd wrote:
Phil,
sudden drop out. I guess another good idea is to protect with a UPS of
some sort - they are relatively cheap (compared to losing all the
data) and only need offer a minute or 2 up time to be able to unmount
the partition correctly and shutdown.
True; I wonder whether there's been any serious study done on what
common file systems actually "do" when the power just goes out from
underneath them.
No idea. Would be interesting to know. Most of my experience has been
with ext3 which, at least in my experience, handles a power drop out
quite well - on rare occasions have I had to repair the filesystem. But
then again, it probably depends greatly on what it was doing at the time.
Fil
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