On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:59:51AM +0530, Shanker Balan wrote:
>
> Like Kingsly had pointed out - journaled filesystems are _not_ meant for
> protecting data in case of power outages. The chances of losing data
> are the same with or without a journaled filesystem. The only diff would
> be that you can avoid a very long fsck if a journaled FS is used.
>
> You won't believe the number of people who keep asking this question on
> the XFS mailing list - "I switched off the power during heavy disk
> activity and now i lost some data. XFS sucks!".
>
Yes. That much I can guess. No method can protect all the data if one
unplugs the power. What I was thinking was if after a period of disk
activity the machine is idle and then there is a power outage, at least,
these new file systems would/might provide a way of saving my data. That
appears to be the case.
Thanks for all the replies. As of now, I just took the plunge and
converted all the partitions to ext3. If there are problems, I will be
back bugging people requesting ways for retrieval :-)
Thanks,
--
Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton
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