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I can explain what is my (maybe irrational) fear: I am working on my desktop or laptop, I get a power cut or the laptop battery run out, when I reboot the file
by sunshine-o 2mo ago
I can explain what is my (maybe irrational) fear:
I am working on my desktop or laptop, I get a power cut or the laptop battery run out, when I reboot the filesystem is unrecoverable and I loose 4 hours rebuilding the system and recovering from backup.
So it is not really about loosing recent files but the potential time lost (usually at the worst/busiest moment).
- SoftTalker 2mo agoI suppose it's possible, but I have had dozens of power cuts and never been unable to recover or lost any important data. Perhaps I have lost some temporary files in a browser cache or something like that and just never noticed. Everything I really care about is backed up anyway, as it should be because robust file systems aside, physical failure of storage media is also a possibility on any system. The fsck can be a bit annoying compared to rebooting with a journaled file system, but it has never failed to recover for me. The "softdep" (soft updates) mount option was eliminated in release 7.4 and I cannot say whether that has made the file system more or less reliable but the stated reason it was removed was because it was poorly understood and complex code. "It is too clever for us to continue maintaining as it is." https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=169940176704812 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=169940176704812