Erez Zadok <ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> writes: > No kidding. I have raid5, plus a spare, plus a UPS, and I still got hit. > People in the area said that there were such terrible power spikes that even > an average UPS might not have been able to totally filter those out. There are several UPS types available, off-line (switch to battery when the power goes down, but bypass as power is there), off-line with monitoring for irregularities, and on-line. El-cheapo off-line aren't supposed nor able to suppress spikes. Which one do you use? Does ext2/ext3 checksum or timestamp meta/administrative data so it can figure out if a block contains garbage at all? -- Matthias Andree _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users