Re: corruption during power loss
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:51:01PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote:
>
> > About half the time that I experience power failures, I need to run fsck on my
> > Debian system.
>
> So, have you had to reinstall packages? With RedHat/Mandrake, I
> would immediately do an rpm -Va to verify everything, but I quickly found
> out that several packages would complain about being broken even after a
> fresh install, so the information was useless.
> I'm still getting deeper into Debian's packaging tools.
>
> I tried running sync on a cronjob every hour, but it didn't help
> much. I never understood why Linux seemed so vulnerable to this. I've had
> the system crippled for hours with corrupt files while I reinstall
> packages. Not since installing Debian, but considering what you've said
> here, maybe I've been lucky.
Try mounting your drive with the options noatime,sync and then install
noflushd which will cause a sync/powerdown of drive when there is no
activity.
HTH
>
> Mike
>
>
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