Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:56:56 -0700 From: "Balaji, Pavan" <pavan.balaji@intel.com> To: "'Brian T. Schellenberger'" <bts@babbleon.org>, Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>, Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: If a disk is mounted read only is it possible to corrupt it? Message-ID: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18703BC5C11@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com>
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Corruption need not necessarily be s/w based. If your reader/writer is screwed up, it might still corrupt it. Guess, I'm too paranoid ;-) Pavan Balaji, Intel Corporation "Only the Paranoid Survive" -- Andy Grove > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian T. Schellenberger [mailto:bts@babbleon.org] > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:17 AM > To: Jens Rehsack; Philip Hallstrom > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: If a disk is mounted read only is it possible to corrupt > it? > > > On Monday 22 July 2002 06:23 am, Jens Rehsack wrote: > | Philip Hallstrom wrote: > | > Hi all - > | > This seems like an obvious answer, but I didn't > see anything in > | > the man pages or the FQ so... > | > > | > If I mount *all* of my partitions as read only (ignoring > the problems of > | > needing to write log files, etc. for now) and then cut > the power to the > | > server, is there any chance of corrupting the disk? It seems that > | > FreeBSD wouldn't do it, but would the disk itself do it? > | > | That depends on the disk you're using. If you have problem with your > | power supply, you should better think 'bout an uninterruptable power > | supply. > > Unless there is a power surge or physical trauma, a disk most > certainly should > not be capable of "self-corrupting" unless a write has been > issued, and if > they are mounted r/o then FreeBSD will never issue a write. > > > > -- > Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) > http://www.babbleon.org > > http://www.eff.org > http://www.programming-freedom.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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