Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

[James Phillips]

--- On Mon, 11/30/09, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:

> 
> This is actually the way UFS/FFS works too: when my system
> was crashing
> fairly regularly I was a bit surprised to find empty files
> after
> editing them.
> 
> Also, I just verified that saving a file, rebooting,
> editing it again
> (with ee(1)) and powering off the system does still result
> in a zero
> length file being on disk.
> 

Ok, good to know.

I saw UFS corruption once with frequent restarts, but assumed that was because the "delayed filesystem checking" never had a chance to run.

Since I don't have a UPS I guess backups are doubly important.

-james.



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