Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 25, 2003 01:25 PM
Not my experience. I've got all my disks/partitions in ext3 with journaling. I started this after my home machine was set-up that way, and we had a lightning storm. The machine was up and down like a yo-yo about 5 times in one evening, never a hitch.
Since then, I migrated several other machines with 10+ partitions all to ext3, and there has never been a hitch in the many many power-cycle recoveries we've had.
One should be warned though - journalling doesn't protect against HARDWARE failures, only software issues in power cycles.
Dunno if this helps anyone else. I've had the same experiences with AdvFS (from Dec, now Compaq, now HP) and Sun's journalled file system. At one site we actually were given instructions to execute sync twice before shutdown on Sun machines - and shutdown was flipping the power switch !
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Re:Get a BOFH to rewrite this bit...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 25, 2003 01:25 PMSince then, I migrated several other machines with 10+ partitions all to ext3, and there has never been a hitch in the many many power-cycle recoveries we've had.
One should be warned though - journalling doesn't protect against HARDWARE failures, only software issues in power cycles.
Dunno if this helps anyone else. I've had the same experiences with AdvFS (from Dec, now Compaq, now HP) and Sun's journalled file system. At one site we actually were given instructions to execute sync twice before shutdown on Sun machines - and shutdown was flipping the power switch !
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