Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Arthur Britto
Hi, If you don't use a UPS, what you want is journaling file system that is configured to do a lot of syncing. However, the syncing will make writing really slow. Ext4 has the latest features. Especially, if you want to use an SSD. To really be reliable you must use a UPS which can signal when

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Arthur Britto
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:35 -0400, Hal Martin wrote: > Arthur Britto wrote: > > You likely want more than a minute. Most likely, you don't want your > > system to crash when coming back up when power fails soon after it is > > restored: your system could be in the mi

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Arthur Britto
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 10:15 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. > > What can the group recommend? > > I only need something that will give me about a minute's head start to safely > turn of the box. You likely want more than