Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:42:53 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation. Message-ID: <4313AB8D.4010807@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050830002051.GE1462@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> References: <20050829120415.GA1462@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <200508291836.j7TIaVEk013147@gw.catspoiler.org> <20050829185933.GB1462@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <431362ED.9030800@mac.com> <20050829204714.GC1462@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <43137AFB.9060304@mac.com> <20050829215613.GD1462@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <431390A0.5080007@mac.com> <20050830002051.GE1462@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>
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Matthias Buelow wrote: > (snippage...) I was > merely pointing out the inadequacy of talking about "robust > filesystems" in the context of softupdates and end-consumer harddrives. > Would you be happy if the handbook section added a caution, or referred to the section that discusses the write cache? (FWIW - I have seen Linux + ext3 systems destroyed by power failure because the admins refused to disable write caching on ATA drives - Neither journelling or softupdates is much help if the HW is kidding you about write acknowledgment). Cheers Mark
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