Phil,
sudden drop out. I guess another good idea is to protect with a UPS of some sort - they are relatively cheap (compared to losing all the data) and only need offer a minute or 2 up time to be able to unmount the partition correctly and shutdown.
True; I wonder whether there's been any serious study done on what common file systems actually "do" when the power just goes out from underneath them.
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