Re: Linux should better cope with power failure

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
20 Mar 2001 13:38:04 -0800

Followup to: <3AB68A91.9785A9D0@bluewin.ch>
By author: Otto Wyss <otto.wyss@bluewin.ch>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> It was just a simple test machine where it didn't matter what was lost.
> Still that doesn't justify this behaviour.
>

Then use a journalling filesystem. If not, give it a few minutes of
idle time; fsck will complain on boot but it should be able to clean
up the mess.

-hpa

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