[linux-audio-user] AMD64 question: update

Dan Easley daneasley at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 14:00:05 EDT 2006


On 7/6/06, Pieter Palmers <pieterp at joow.be> wrote:
> Paul Winkler wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:43:40PM +0200, Pieter Palmers wrote:
> >> Modern harddisks use a lot of write caching on the controller to achieve
> >> decent performance. So when power goes down when there is data in the
> >> write cache, it is lost. The file system however 'thinks' that data has
> >> been written correctly. This hence results in file system corruption.

Thanks much for this whole thread.  It's added substance to what I
previously thought was just personal paranoia and suspicion.

I've been under the impression it's cheaper to buy used UPS's and buy
replacement batteries for them.  Has anyone done this to good results?

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