From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 20:03:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA26524 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:03:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA26516 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA29745; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:03:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:03:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "J.A. Terranson" cc: "'FreeBSD Questions'" Subject: Re: Power Outages And Missing Tree Limbs... In-Reply-To: <01BD866D.F4CF1050@w3svcs.mfn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 23 May 1998, J.A. Terranson wrote: > (1) We had a power outage yesterday that lasted about two hours > longer than our 8 hour batteries did :( and I'm happy to report that of > the 15 odd machines running 2.2.5R, only 1 suffered any file systems > damage when the (unexpected) end finally came (fsck compained about > "missing/corrupted bitmaps"). > > To put that into perspective: 1 SVR4 machine was totaled, 2 were > seriously damaged enough to require reloading anyway, and I'm nervous > about the rest of them (6 more). In my experience (15++ years) this is > about average for *nix crashes, so I'm * VERY * impressed with FBSD's > "survivability"! Thank you. FBSD just became our *nix standard. :) Were you running your filesystems async, curiously? > (2) As part of our new standard, I decided to load up Apache today, and > I see it has fallen off the ports tree? It is NOT in the www ports, and > I am unable to find it (or a tarball) on the standard freebsd ftp sites. > Where did it go??? Looks there to me. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message