Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:12:59 -0400 From: Jim <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: "Roland Smith" <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystem information Message-ID: <80f4f2b20806301212n1bf6137bq75f40464212c2304@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080630170400.GB65282@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <80f4f2b20806300401x71483882x8e9a6cf919f1ff9@mail.gmail.com> <20080630073059.be11304d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <80f4f2b20806300930p67ca1fd5xf9ad59d16889df36@mail.gmail.com> <20080630170400.GB65282@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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> In case of frequent power outages, I guess the right answer is "get a > UPS". :) Aye, I just got one. But for the longest time, it was a bit out of my price range due to other priorities. Actually, the whole model line was defective, so they are sending me a new one, and I have to wait for it to arrive. > Without a UPS nothing can protect you against power outages. Even when > running the filesystem with the sync flag and setting ATA devices to > write-through the cache cannot guarantee you won't lose data. If the > power fails when a write is in progress, you're screwed. I'm aware of nothing but a UPS can completely protect me from an outage. I was just wondering why that ONE file system was misbehaving, and the rest are prefectly fine - which seemed odd. Additionally, why were files that are read, but not written, being lost? I can understand losing files that are being written, but if there's a file that has bene written several restarts ago, not written to thereafter, and has been fine ever since, why is it being lost now?
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