Justin Piszcz wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: >> Actually I'd like to know... how does it behave during powerfails >> while it is being written to? >> >> Flashes I seen (USB / SD) developed bad sectors in that case, and >> ext2/ext3 can't handle that. (And I don't think xfs can handle that >> either). > > I have a UPS for all of my machines, so that will not be a problem in my > case. UPSs fail too. ... > With barriers, presumably it would be safe There are other opinions: http://lwn.net/Articles/309576/ (Magnetic disks are discussed there.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- ==-- -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
