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From: "Michael Silver" <msilver@sc.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and surviving unclean shutdowns
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 22:58:32 -0400
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I am no expert on this, but using the default file system, without
softupdates, I had my server crashing about every other day for a month due
to a hardware problem.  Obviously it wasn't very useable, but I never lost a
single file.

FreeBSD's default install is highly realiable, if so desired you can tune it
for  speed.  The theory is, FreeBSD is meant to be a highly reliable, stable
OS before it is a speed demon.  Of course FreeBSD does shine in several area
when it comes to speed.

...Michael...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Reid" <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 10:14 PM
Subject: FreeBSD and surviving unclean shutdowns


> While I am resurecting one of my mail servers (which is currently
> running Linux) the thought crossed my mind "How would FreeBSD cope with
> this situation?"
>
> This server is running Software-RAID on a (patched for RAID) 2.2 kernel,
> and last night, the power went out for about three hours. My UPS only
> lasted for 2 of them.
>
> How does FreeBSD cope with these sort of things? My Cache server took
> about an hour-and-a-half of fsck.ext2'ing to come back to a useable
> state.
>
> My primary mail server, as I said is still in pieces and being
> resurected now. I've been contemplating bringing the mail over to
> FreeBSD, but haven't as yet as I've still got to port some PAM stuff
> that we wrote for Linux.
>
> Can someone please comment on this?
>
>    - andrew
>
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