I live in the boon docks. Frequent power loss, generally only a fraction of a second to 5 seconds at best. UPS flawless for about 3 years now APS brand, the low power one, only about $70.00 Has handled two boxes, one monitor.
On Monday 11 August 2003 05:21 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2003 12:51 pm, Joćo Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: > > I got this twice, as I was using linux and got a blackout. When I turned > > on the system again, it gave me this message, then I wanted to repair the > > errors. When the boot was complete, I got many erros. One of them, i > > couldnt start X. Some /usr/bin commands where lost, and some other files > > where lost too. Then, without knowledge enough to repair file to file, > > and without time to do so, I reinstalled my mdk system. Finished the > > install, another blackout, and the same problem. Reinstall again. > > > > So, should I use another FS? Is there any FS better in all ways > > (performance, confiability)? > > > > Thanks > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dale Starr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 6:40 PM > > Subject: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem > > > > > Hi, I was hoping that someone could help me with this question. I have > > > a redhat box as a fileserver I was just wondering something about the > > > EXT3 filesystem (or maybe them all in general). After a power outage, > > > the > > > > machine > > > > > started up with the following error > > > ####### Start Message ####### > > > Your filesystem appears to be shutdown uncleanly > > > Press Y within 4 seconds to force file system integrity check > > > #So I press 'y' > > > /dev/hda5: > > > /lost+found not found. CREATED > > > /dev/hda5: Optimizind Directories: 16350 48487 63105 79467 94847 111234 > > > 126216 126813 141986 ....(continues).... > > > /dev/hda5: ***** REBOOT LINUX ***** > > > /dev/hda5: 63815/52416 files (0.3% non contiguous), 158268/504031 > > > blocks Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? > > > (Y/N) > > > > (beware > > > > > you can lose data) > > > ####### END Message ####### > > > When I select "yes," I was just wondering how after it does the checks > > > and fixes the errors I can see what its done. If a file got corrupted > > > during > > > > the > > > > > shutdown and it wasn't able to be repaired (through the journal, > > > etc...) > > > > how > > > > > would I know what files were affected so I could manually remove/fix > > > them > > > > so > > > > > that I dont have corrupted files lying around? Is there a log of some > > > sort > > > > ? > > > > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >-- - ---- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Same here, so last time I loaded with reiserFS and have had no problem > since. That was a couple of months ago. We have had at least two outages > since then. I get them so fast that the ups doesn't have time to kick in > but the computer reboots. It is just a flash with the sound of the > Ventilation motor kicking and no real timespan. My ups is supposed to be > 3ns but I don't have any idea if that is accurate. Sometimes when it goes > off and stays off for several minutes I have time to halt and ups works as > promised. Digression, back to the subject, reiserFS does not seem to loose > any files under the described conditions. HTH
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