Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3B0907CD.F3FFA86C>