can I make a reset-at-will box?

[Mike McCarty]

Tim wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Is is possible to configure FC4 in such a way that I can press the
>>>reset button at will, or rudely turn off the power, and not have to
>>>care in the slightest about the file system being upset?
> 
> 
> Benjamin Donnachie:
> 
> 
>>Use a journalising file system such as ext3?
> 
> 
> I do, but during testing (where I've hit the reset button and pulled out
> the power leads), I've seen warnings about not being shutdown properly
> and fsck should be done on the drive.  I don't know how much I can
> ignore such warnings, and just carry on hoping for the best.
> 
> It'd be better if there was no need to "recover", that the drive was
> only being written to if you were actually saving data to it.
> 

But, how do you guarantee that the power doesn't fail DURING THE
DISC WRITE? Pulling power on a disc during a write, can cause it
to scribble all over the disc.

Mike
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