windy day in Seattle

[Collins]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:52:47 -0800
Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Just a report on my day yesterday. We had gusts over 60mph here near 
> Seattle causing power to go out 5 times at my home, mostly for just a 
> few seconds, but enough each time to cause a reboot of my machine here
> 
> running libranet on Reiserfs using grub. Very excited to report NO 
> PROBLEMS. Quick reboot time, none of that fsck stuff, no loss that I
> can find, everything functioning normally.
> 

My experience over the past few years is that reiserfs, ext3, and xfs
always recover from 99.99% of the glitches.  I've never found any of
these to fail to recover using the journal after a power outage.

Obviously the .01% case would leave a bitter taste in the mouth.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
gentoo 1.4 system