Re: X config damaged by power failure

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 09:16:33 am g wrote:
also, you never know where disk heads are when something goes
wrong.

you should give some serious thought to putting an ups in line
with mains.

This is good advice. I forgot to add one thing in my previous reply,
so let me do so now.

One might also want to look at using the stateless Linux hooks to set
up a read-only root filesystem. It requires a bit more thinking, but
I can say that for my own needs it works quite well. In this case,
it could've saved poc from a bit of trouble.

-dwight-

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