Bryan Kadzban wrote:
< SNIP > Some of the horror stories that I've heard are exactly the case that you're protecting against with your batteries: Supposedly a sudden removal of power causes some grief with certain journaling methods, including the method that reiserfs uses. (Or used to use; maybe it's changed since then.)
< SNIP >I think things have changed since then. I have had to on a couple occasions unplug my rig or use the halt command and not have a clean shutdown. It fixes the errors when I reboot, if any. I have read where others have done the same with no losses. I have tried XFS and others and had trouble in these areas before. That is one reason I use reiserfs and it came highly recommended because it can recover so well.
On XFS, if you have a UPS and can always have a clean shutdown, very cool. It seriously hates unclean shutdowns.
Dale:-) :-)