OT - Journaling File Systems?

Christian B. Ellsworth Capo k at dicec.cl
Wed Apr 28 20:34:58 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:51, Jesse Keating wrote:
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> On Wednesday 28 April 2004 06:45, Christian B. Ellsworth Capo wrote:
> > In ATA, SATA and normal SCSI is not the case... there is not a battery
> > to protect the data in "traffic" from the OS to the disk plates, so on a
> > power failure that in traffic data is eventually lost.
> 
> There are ATA and SATA raid cards that offer battery backup as well.  
> Internal cards and external enclosures.
<thinking loud> is the 8mb of data in traffic of a normal harddisk
(120GB, 7200rpm 8mb) perhaps suceptible (not sure about the spelling)
to, during a power failure, the lost of the data in traffic?

perhaps the data corruption is beyond of the FS used and is because the
hardware buffers/cache being not batery protected?
 </thinking loud>

greets

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