filesystem information

[Ruben de Groot]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:12:59PM -0400, Jim typed:
> 
> I'm aware of nothing but a UPS can completely protect me from an
> outage. I was just wondering why that ONE file system was misbehaving,
> and the rest are prefectly fine - which seemed odd. Additionally, why
> were files that are read, but not written, being lost? I can
> understand losing files that are being written, but if there's a file
> that has bene written several restarts ago, not written to thereafter,
> and has been fine ever since, why is it being lost now?

Just a thought, but in normal circumstances files *are* written to, 
even when they are just being read: the access time is updated (unless 
you mount the fs with the noatime flag).

Ruben