From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GfCs4-00027b-6P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:58:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id kA19uo6x028144; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 09:56:50 GMT Received: from linda-1.paradise.net.nz (linda-1.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.180]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kA19sBZn023505 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 09:54:11 GMT Received: from smtp-2.paradise.net.nz (tclsnelb1-src-1.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.172]) by linda-1.paradise.net.nz (Paradise.net.nz) with ESMTP id <0J8100FTCQ69C9@linda-1.paradise.net.nz> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:54:09 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (218-101-28-20.dsl.clear.net.nz [218.101.28.20]) by smtp-2.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8039150907 for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:54:08 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:54:00 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <45486EB8.5030305@paradise.net.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061101) References: <200610310917.48293.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200610311104.01802.uwix@iway.na> <200610311713.27803.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <45478CD6.4070502@ilievnet.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2fde26d1-d827-4f2e-b7c2-362d5be8c200 X-Archives-Hash: 154a8e1d9e032e4b80a222259f0eed91 Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > Daniels advice is actually the best that you can get. It will give > you the smallest chance of corruption due out of order journal commits > that caching can cause. While this is true, it also may dramatically lower the mean time to failure for your disk, due to increased ware and tear - consumer ATA drives are designed to operate with the write cache on. If you cannot afford to lose data due to poweroff corruption, then the only viable solution is a RAID card that includes battery backup (e.g. 3Ware and Areca sell these). regards mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list