Hi, I have seen and heard many cases of ext3 corrupted after abnormal powerdown (e.g. missing all the files in one directory). yes, UPS should help, but wonder what kind of worst scenario will ext3 present after powerdown. messed up meta data has been seen in many cases, for example, the in-direct block of one inode contains garbage, which causes the automatic fsck failed to work and user has to repair the file system manually (and always result in some missing files). should I blame ext3 for it? or should I just turn off the disk write cache? it seems Windows NTFS has less such problem than ext3, and no matter it's the problem of ext3 or mis-configured hardware, this behavior is really causes lots of people to doubt the stability of Linux file system. thanks, -- Pengcheng _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
