> From: Brandon Allbery [mailto:allber...@gmail.com] > >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) >> <lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> Unless I miss my guess, the discussions you're remembering are *not* >> filesystem-eats-itself-because-of-power-failure. Every filesystem can >> become corrupt via hardware failure (CPU or memory errors, etc), or >> software failures (malware gobbles up critical disk sectors), or human >> failures. But that's not a reason to believe that snapshotting a running >> system, or hard-cutting the power leads to filesystem corruption of any kind. > > Glad you're in a position to make such expert guesses. So spurious > nonrepeatable hardware failures are just happening to occur at loss of > power, you say? > Evidently your great expertise defeats logic.
Look, if you can't provide a reference to support your belief that HFS+ and XFS get corrupted by power outages, don't expect anyone to offer more than a guess as to why that information is incorrect. As to insulting my expertise - Brandon doesn't like Ned. We get it. Thanks, moving on. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
