On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:52:08AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> If an ungraceful power-out causes that, you need a better
> filesystem, fsck, or both. I've had plenty of power-outs on my
> NetBSD machines using FFS and I don't think I've ever seen a case
> where it needed manual attention unless something else was wrong
> as well; perhaps it would be worth looking into switching, either
> filesystems or OSes?
Suffice to say I have, with FFS in fact (on OpenBSD). We were
managing hundreds of firewalls. >99% of the time they would boot
back up just fine after loss of power, but the fraction of a percent
which complained about a failure to safely fsck /var would still
trouble us... one every couple years, I'd say. That drove us to
using ramdisks for local log data (we syslog'ed most everything to
another host anyway).
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