On 7/27/05, Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 27, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Andrew Close wrote: > > > > > i currently have one MythBox up and running in our home production > > environment. :) now that the new season of SG-1, Atlantis & > > Battlestar Galactica has started i freak out whenever there is a blip > > in the power at our house. in the past week our neighborhood has lost > > power at least four times <shakes-fist> damn you Com-Ed </shakes-fist> > > and i've had to go downstairs and restart the MythBox and check the > > partitions. so far this hasn't happened in the middle of a recording > > or caused a loss of data or any type of corruption. > > I see you have already had some good responses from the UPS side, so > I'll just add my nod to the APC products on that front. > > My suggestion to you would be in addition to adding UPS, clean up your > system so it does not require user intervention when it is restarted. I > had been having spontaneous reboots on my myth backend, which was a > huge bummer, but it only took the machine about a minute to fully > reboot, and when myth restarted, it continued recording. > > I am using ext3 on my system disks, and JFS on my video storage disks, > and they have so far (knock on wood) always managed to straighten > themselves out on their own very quickly after an unclean reboot.
thanks for the tip Michael. i'm using ext3 on system partitions and XFS on all others so i 'should' be safe (as safe as can be). but since i haven't had to deal with system shutdowns on a system i 'cared' about in the past i wanted to be sure and double check the partitions for any damage. so far things have started up clean with no problems. i think most of the mature journaling filesystems are probably pretty good in this respect. andy _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
