Nate Amsden wrote:
> Michael Soulier wrote:
> > My biggest complaint about RedHat/Mandrake while I was using them
> > was the fact that if I lost power, the disk caching would cause the
> > filesystem to be corrupted, often seriously so. I'd cringe when I booted
> > up again, because inevit
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:51:01PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote:
>
> > About half the time that I experience power failures, I need to run fsck on
> > my
> > Debian system.
>
> So, have you had to reinstall packages? With RedHat/Mandrake, I
> would i
Michael Soulier wrote:
>
> My biggest complaint about RedHat/Mandrake while I was using them
> was the fact that if I lost power, the disk caching would cause the
> filesystem to be corrupted, often seriously so. I'd cringe when I booted
> up again, because inevitably, I'd be prompted to l
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From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 8:25 AM
To: Debian Users List
Subject: Re: corruption during power loss
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:58:57PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:13:53PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
&
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:13:53PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> if you want your linux filesystems to be safer and are willing to
> accept the significant performance hit change defaults to
> defaults,sync in /etc/fstab for your ext2 filesystems. be prepared
> for things like tar -x and rm -rf to
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:58:57PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:13:53PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > your other option is using a Journeling filesystem such as Reiser or
> > ext3 (reiser i think is more mature at this point but still has some
> > serious limitations su
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:13:53PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> your other option is using a Journeling filesystem such as Reiser or
> ext3 (reiser i think is more mature at this point but still has some
> serious limitations such as being unsuitable for use on /)
It's time for Linux to integrate
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:51:01PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
> So, have you had to reinstall packages? With RedHat/Mandrake, I
> would immediately do an rpm -Va to verify everything, but I quickly found
> out that several packages would complain about being broken even after a
> fresh in
On 15-Sep-2000 John Hasler wrote:
> Pollywog wrote:
>> About half the time that I experience power failures, I need to run fsck
>> on my Debian system.
>
> How is your system partitioned? One big root partition is not a good idea
> for someone who suffers frequent power failures.
I have one big
Pollywog wrote:
> About half the time that I experience power failures, I need to run fsck
> on my Debian system.
How is your system partitioned? One big root partition is not a good idea
for someone who suffers frequent power failures.
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John Hasler
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On 15-Sep-2000 Michael Soulier wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote:
>
>> About half the time that I experience power failures, I need to run fsck on
>> my
>> Debian system.
>
> So, have you had to reinstall packages? With RedHat/Mandrake, I
> would immediately do an rpm -Va to ver
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote:
> About half the time that I experience power failures, I need to run fsck on my
> Debian system.
So, have you had to reinstall packages? With RedHat/Mandrake, I
would immediately do an rpm -Va to verify everything, but I quickly found
out that several
About half the time that I experience power failures, I need to run fsck on my
Debian system.
On 15-Sep-2000 Michael Soulier wrote:
> So I ask, what aspect of Debian makes it superior in this
> respect? What's causing the wonderful lack of corruption during power
> failures?
>
>
Michael Soulier wrote:
> problems easily fixed by fsck without manual control necessary. I noticed
> the entries in /etc/inittab for powerloss, but the script it's pointing to
> for me is not installed, so it's not that, although I'd like to know what
> this /etc/init.d/powerfail script is.
IIRC
Huh, that's weird. I used RH more than a little -- my home system had RH
(5.2 and 6.0) over a year before it was graced with Debian, and I've used
RH 6.1 and 6.2 at work. Though there are bookoos of things I like better
about Debian, I never had the problem you described below.
I had the power
My biggest complaint about RedHat/Mandrake while I was using them
was the fact that if I lost power, the disk caching would cause the
filesystem to be corrupted, often seriously so. I'd cringe when I booted
up again, because inevitably, I'd be prompted to login as root and run
fsck myself.
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