Wow, you are asking a lot, especially since an inexpensive UPS could be
had for less than $50. You don't need one to keep the system up for a
long time, just long enough for writes to finish. A few minutes should
be plenty.
I don't see a problem with IDE drives. Your drive access patterns are
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 10:49, Brent Baisley wrote:
Wow, you are asking a lot, especially since an inexpensive UPS could be
had for less than $50. You don't need one to keep the system up for a
long time, just long enough for writes to finish. A few minutes should
be plenty.
Yeah, remember
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:49:13 -0500, Brent Baisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow, you are asking a lot, especially since an inexpensive UPS could be
had for less than $50. You don't need one to keep the system up for a
long time, just long enough for writes to finish. A few minutes should
be
If the power is yanked a journaled file system knows exactly what it
was doing at the time of failure, what didn't finish, and can recover
from any errors caused by the failure.
A non-journaled file system would need to run a check to see if
everything is ok. This could take a long time on a
Again the logging server i mentioned before: it's like syslog logging
to a DB, lots of INSERTs, perhaps a few SELECTs every now and then,
the tables are append-only and are rotated about once a day.
For reasons that i am not going to discuss here, the machine has no
uninterruptible power supply.
