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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
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