D'oh! moments

[Scott Prive]

I'm pretty sure CTRL-ALT-DELETE calls sync() on the way down... I don't
think you'd lose any data unless a daemon gets stuck trying to shut down.

If you power cycled -- the blocks you'd lose would be recent unflushed
writes... not random data. That would excluse (mostly) read files like MP3.
There is always worst case you can toast the superblock.   =:-o

Backing up MP3 data to CDR or DVDR is trivial, but as you point out there's
other aspects such as data organization. I still haven't got that one
figured out.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "miah" <jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com>
To: <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: D'oh! moments


> Yes,
>
> Its a risk you don't want to take on your fileserver that has 120gigs of
mp3's that has taken you months to download and organise.
>
> -miah
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:05:31AM -0400, Chris Meyer wrote:
> > So (and I realize this is going to sound like a newbie question) why
> > can't you just reboot the server? I know it's an otherwise bad thing to
> > do, but I figure that if the server is already effectively dead to the
> > outside world then any other services it might have been hosting
> > wouldn't seem any LESS dead during the reboot, and most file systems
> > I've seen can handle a CTRL-ALT-DEL or two (after file system checks).
> >
> > I mean, it's obviously not a good solution for every time you want to
> > down the server, but in this case it's a lot simpler than getting the
> > laptop hooked up through a null-modem cable. Or is there something I'm
> > missing about rebooting a server that doesn't involve long bootup times
> > and filesystem checks?
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> > Duane Morin wrote:
> > > I was the original poster.  I appreciate the offer, but I dont
> > > have the space for it.  I think I'll look into the serial console
> > > route some folks mentioned (plus protecting my shell window from
> > > letting me do that again!)
> > >
> > > Duane
> > >
> > > On Thu, 15 May 2003, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>On Thu, 15 May 2003 07:35:33 -0500
> > >>"John Whitfield" <john_whitfield at email.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> > The machine in my basement has no head, and the
> > >>> > only monitor in the house is my flatscreen up in
> > >>> > the office. So doing stuff local on the server
> > >>> > means having to take apart my Windows machine and
> > >>> > lug the monitor downstairs, possibly just to
> > >>> > issue a 3 second command.
> > >>
> > >>I don't recal the original poster, but I have a 17" Zenith monitor
that
> > >>I want to get rid of. It works ok except that sometimes it loses blue
> > >>sync so the colors look crappy. It should be good for a spare monitor.
I
> > >>had used it on a backup system for my wife. It's free for anyone who
> > >>wants it. I can bring it to the BLU meeting next week.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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