[geeks] sensitive solaris

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Apr 22 23:14:22 CDT 2002


On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:10:19PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 21:05, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > For the second time, my Ultra1 has been reset improperly (no idea why this
> > time, no one was anywhere near it when it got reset.  Last time a few days
> > ago, the power strip it's plugged into accidently got turned off), and
> > for the second time it has had a damaged file system requiring manual 
> > repair.  Usually my linux machines and netbsd react better to improper power 
> > offs (like either no damage, or damage that can be fixed automaticall).  Is
> > this usual for solaris?
> 
> I think you've just been lucky on Linux so far, or running a decent
> filesystem (not ext2), or something.  Turn on journaling for UFS, and be
> glad that it can actually recover things.  For what it's worth, my ext2
> drives always had errors on them whenever I lost power, though fsck was
> able to "correct" them enough to mount the filesystem, generally causing
> some lost data.

Nope.  Plain ext2.  I'll have to look up journaling for UFS because this is
getting rediculous.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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