On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Hi Friends
>
> 1. What safety measures/preventative action should I take to minimise the
> effects of sudden power failures.
Only way is to eliminate power failures will an UPS, eg.,
http://www.apcc.com/
> 2. I read somewhere that switching off the system without logging out in the
> recommended manner (equivalent to a power failure) can/will (I'm not sure
> which) result in corruption of sys files rendering LM unbootable (or was
> that an exageration).
No, it's not. usually you can recover, but eventually you're
gonna lose the FS. That's been my experience. I bought an APC
Backups 500 at Wal*Mart for $123. 'Course I have no idea what
availability/prices are like in S Africa. It not only will handle
power outages, but also 'brown-outs', and other 'dirty' power
situations, and functions as a surge protector also (power and
phone). Here in rural arkansas, I deal with all of that.
> 3. For example are there special keyboard inputs I can make to save that
> which is in Ram as I go along, say every 10 minutes.
> 4. Win will scan the disk and save corrupt or unlinked files - what does LM
> do in this situation.
>
> Thanks
>
> Alan (South Africa)
I don't know of any Alan, other than it's reported that ext3,
Reiser, and other similar 'journaling' FS's that Linux can run on
are less susceptible to file corruption due to improper shutdowns.
Reiser FS is an option in Mdk 7.1 (expert). Even still tho, power
fluctuations, spikes, and outages not only threaten your software,
but just as importantly they put your hardware at risk. I got an
UPS not just because I had to re-install Linux a few times, and
rebuild Windoze registry, I also lost a scanner and a CD-RW.
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~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
