On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:49, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:04, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote: > > > > I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of > > > > recently is sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply > > > > fault. Either way, it has the same effect of discombobulating my hard > > > > drive so I have to do a lot of fscking on startup again. > > > > Occasionally this completely munges my X setup. > > > > > > I think you might find ext3 to be a big help, though it's not a > > > complete solution - if the power dies in the middle of a write, you > > > can end up with a bad sector being created, which can confuse things a > > > bit. > > > > Are there any downsides to ext3? > > If you have a filesystem with a dirty journal you MUST try and replay > the journal, ie, fsck it, before doing anything else with it. If you > forget this you'll probably end up with worse damage than if you made > the same mistake with ext2. ext3 can be mounted as ext2 in emergency, > eg. if your rescue kernel hasn't got ext3 support, but don't be > tempted to mount it read-write.
I think, with my capability for pushing the wrong button at critical moments, I might be safer to stick with ext2 then. > There's also a slight speed hit. This will be the case with any > journalled filesystem as there is more writing involved. I'm a fan of > SCSI hard drives, and I like to set up ext3 with an external journal, > ie. on a different physical drive, which speeds things up a bit, > though at the cost of making your data twice as vulnerable to hard > drive failures (if the journal drive dies you're likely to end up with > an unfsckable mess on the data drive). > > ext3 vs. reiser is a bit like emacs vs. vi. I haven't tried reiser, so > I won't comment on it. > > > The new PSU idea will get tried out next weekend when I can pick one up. > > (It's cheaper than the other possibility which is trying out a new > > motherboard + CPU :) > > It's worth noting that O(500MHz) PII/III machines are dumpster items > nowadays, but are still capable enough to be useful for trying that > sort of test before committing yourself. 8-) Quite true. My motherboard is a 350MHz K6. If I have to upgrade it, I won't be too upset, but the 350's fast enough for what I need so I there's no point fixing it if it ain't broke. And I guess one big advantage is, I can afford to risk breaking it ;) Btw, I initially set up that DOS/Windoze drive I was talking about on my spare machine - a 75MHz AMD K5. So what, it still works! cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
