I have another server (used as a router) running FreeBSD 8 off of a CF card.(and several previous versions in the past) and it survives all of my power outages with grace.
>From the reading I have done it seems to me that the UFS filesystem is supposed to be robust and not susceptible to corruption on this level. I seem to be able to reproduce this problem every time! Thank you, On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Matthias Apitz <[email protected]> wrote: > El día Wednesday, October 13, 2010 a las 02:11:48PM -0400, Scott Charron > escribió: > > > Hi, > > > > I don't know if this is a USB problem or not - but I figured I'd start > here. > > > > I have a Acer H340. I installed a barebones install of FreeBSD8.1 > > (release). I previously had FreeBSD8.0 release and was experiencing the > > same problem. > > > > I have a 4GB USB memory stick that I installed FreeBSD onto (512M /, 512M > > /var, remaining /usr). > > > > Everything works great, but if if the PC receives a power loss I get file > > system corruption problems: > > > > Something like: > > > > * /dev/ad0s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.* > >... > > Of course, if the system on power loss can't shutdown and umount the > file systems and the root fs, this exactly will be the result that the > fs are marked as dirty, need fsck on reboot and sometimes even a > manually fsck if the inconsistencies are to not easy repairable. > > You might count this a feature, and not a bug. > > matthias > > -- > Matthias Apitz > t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 > e <[email protected]> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
