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b.n. wrote: |
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> Dale ha scritto: |
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>> If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power |
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>> failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig because of |
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>> this very problem. If you have a UPS, that may be OK. |
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> Thanks a lot for the advice. Power outages do happen and I don't have |
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> an UPS. Why does it happen? Isn't XFS journaled? |
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> m. |
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I had the exact same thing happen twice. It ran every other file system |
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just fine, but XFS with one power failure and it was unbootable from |
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then on. |
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I don't know why I just know that I used Reiserfs after that and it |
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worked fine, even after power failures, lots of them too. |
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That said, nothing is perfect. A UPS is a good idea even if it can only |
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last long enough for a proper shutdown. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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