Re: Linux should better cope with power failure

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:    Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> It was just a simple test machine where it didn't matter what was lost.
> Still that doesn't justify this behaviour.
> 

Then use a journalling filesystem.  If not, give it a few minutes of
idle time; fsck will complain on boot but it should be able to clean
up the mess.

        -hpa
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