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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: "burt f." <burt@focusplus.com>
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Subject: Re: ? power outages and file system corruption
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On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, burt f. wrote:

> Is the only way to protect against power-outage-caused file system
> corruption to install a UPS?  Someone mentioned to me that Sun
> (yeah, i know it's Solaris, but i just wanted to know if there was
> something analogous in FBSD) has some sort of disk/FS caching to
> protect against this.

  You mean like a Prestoserve caching controller?  It is hardware
solution.  A UPS is much better, because your server keeps running.

> Thanks for any information.
> 
> burt


Tom