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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:12 on Friday 31 December 2010, Dale did |
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> opine thusly: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I'm planning to build a rig like mine for my brother before to long. I |
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>> know there are lots of opinions on the net but want some personal |
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>> experience information on this. My brother does not have a UPS. I may |
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>> can talk him into getting one but not sure. What is a good file system |
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>> that recovers well from a improper shutdown? I use ext2, ext3 and |
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>> reiserfs here but never had a power problem, except when hal broke my |
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>> stuff. I know XFS is not good for this already from my own personal |
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>> experience. |
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>> Does anyone here have any personal experience on this? Just a 'I use |
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>> this and had a power failure and it powered up fine with no data loss' |
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>> would be nice. If this happened a lot and still worked, that would be |
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>> even better. |
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>> I'm not looking to start a turf war. This will be a plain old desktop |
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>> so it doesn't need a fancy file system, just one that recovers from a |
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>> power failure. |
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> Down here we have Africa power. |
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> Africa power makes post-Katrina power look tame. |
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> Total corruptions in 5 years with reiserfs-3.6 and NO ups in that environment |
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> = zero. |
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> I can't fairly comment on ext[234] as I don't have the same length of |
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> experience with them. From what other commentators have said elsewhere it |
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> looks like with optimum settings and tweaks they can be just as good as I got |
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> from reiser, but that's just hearsay from me. |
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> My gut feel on this is that any modern fs will be built to be able to tolerate |
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> blackouts - it's almost a requirement these days. So it's likely a 6 and half- |
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> dozen question in reality. Except XFS as you know, but that's a special case |
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> (aggressive caching virtually requires a UPS or guaranteed no-downtime power) |
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I have /boot on ext2. Portage is on ext3. I have reiserfs on |
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everything else. I did have the hal problem and a power supply fan that |
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died and I had to pull the plug. All the file systems I use recovered |
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nicely after those problems. I didn't lose anything that I know of. |
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Is reiserfs being maintained anymore? I have read where some say it is |
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not but I have also read they are working on version 4 and it is being |
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maintained. Not sure what to believe on this one. |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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