On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 09:46:09PM -0400, David Niklas wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:59:40 +0000 > Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > > Also, my use case is at home where the power can and *does* fail. I also > find myself using the latest kernel and oftentimes an experimental driver > for my AMD graphics card, hence my need for a *very* stable fs over > sudden unmount.
Buy a cheap UPS with a USB or serial connection to your computer. Even if it only supplies power for 2 minutes, that's enough time for the computer to receive the power outage signal and do an orderly shutdown. Useful packages: apcupsd nut Cyberpower's UPS systems have Linux support but not Debian packages; it takes about 10 minutes to download their scripts and figure out configuration. -dsr-