Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:04:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: burt@focusplus.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ? power outages and file system corruption Message-ID: <199708261704.TAA00612@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199708260400.VAA02776@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 25, 97 09:00:01 pm
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As Terry Lambert 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. > > Sun has a non-volatile write buffer card you can buy for Sun machines > so async writes aren't dangerous. These things are mostly used for NFS servers. Called 'Prestoserve' and not limited to only Sun machines. I think there is even a special NVRAM SIMM you can put into your Sparcstation. Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda
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