On Monday 18 April 2005 01:34 pm, A. R. wrote:
> Huh?
>
> I have never ever had any power failures with my laptops, if the thing
> is connected to the power outlet and this one fails, well, the battery at > 
> least gives me a chance to "gracefully" shut down the computer.
>

One of the methods I used to test ext3 was just that... I removed the battery, 
plugged the laptop into a local outlet... booted it and started a number of 
various processes... when things looked real good and busy, I pulled the 
plug... BAM! Dead.... Plug it back into the outlet and reboot...  The 
filesystem check would take like a second or two and It's back in business.

I have yet to get a corrupted ext3 partition, even when doing that non-sense.

I tried that exactly once with xfs... Upon boot up it was hosed beyond 
recovery...

-- 

******************************************************************************
                     Registered Linux User Number 185956
              FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004
             Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net
    Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00!
     9:26pm  up 10 days,  4:33,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Reply via email to