On 10/08/17 09:44 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 10 Aug 2017 at 07:04:09 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote:On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 09:46:09PM -0400, David Niklas wrote:On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:59:40 +0000 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote: Also, my use case is at home where the power can and *does* fail. I also find myself using the latest kernel and oftentimes an experimental driver for my AMD graphics card, hence my need for a *very* stable fs over sudden unmount.Buy a cheap UPS with a USB or serial connection to your computer. Even if it only supplies power for 2 minutes, that's enough time for the computer to receive the power outage signal and do an orderly shutdown.Two minutes barely covers the timeouts that can often occur when shutting down systemd; the commonest timeout period here seems to be 90 seconds. I wouldn't mind reducing them if that's possible. Processes got just a few seconds with sysvinit before they were killed.
Still it is sufficient to do an orderly shutdown when power is lost and your network hardware might be off.The bigger issue is why would anyone use experimental drivers and the latest kernel when they are worried about reliability?