Subject: Re: Summer of code ideas
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/18/2007 23:45:53
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Unless it detects an unexpected error. I encountered one just a few
> days ago -- duplicate block allocations... (I'll be posting on that to
> the Xen list.) On-board disk write caches can easily produce that kind
> of thing if there's a power hit. (UPS? Sure; I have one for each of
> my machines. The machines also have no way of knowing when the UPS
> battery is dying, since last time I checked our USB stack was
> sufficiently incompatible with Linux's that the usual daemons don't
> work that way.)
Not that it helps you at this point, but if you have a
choice in future a a UPS with a serial port might help -
I've had very good luck with sysutils/ups-nut on Belkin
and Powerwave UPSs via serial cables...
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