Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:03:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org> Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Power Outages And Missing Tree Limbs... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526200210.13318P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BD866D.F4CF1050@w3svcs.mfn.org>
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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
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