Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:19:25 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: Edmond Wong <edmond@powertechnologies.com.hk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Auto-shutdown Function Message-ID: <3B0907CD.F3FFA86C@iowna.com> References: <XFMail.010521133550.mj@isy.liu.se>
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Micke Josefsson wrote: > On the other hand the file system repair program (fsck) does a very good job and > generally (every time?) brings the system up and running without manual > intervention. Only when disks have been physically damaged have I needed to > manually interact. Perhaps I am just lucky. Between softupdates and fsck, crash recovery is very good, but don't count on it. I've (very occasionally) had systems crash under heavy disk load and sometimes the disk is scrambled enough to lose data. Usually it comes back OK, but not always. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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