Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Mon, 13
> Oct 2008 21:25:23 +0100 <jencs5-om.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Did SP1 make XP immune to power cuts, Ewik?
>
> The question might very well be registry recovery in that case. I'll
> admit to some curiosity.
>
> Linux for its part is not immune to powercuts either; one hopes that
> the journaling is sufficiently robust in ext3, reiserfs, and jfs such
> that an interrupted disk transaction can be recovered up to a certain
> point during filesystem consistency checks.
>
> And there's always the possibility of a battery backup,
Yes, there are a few ways of protecting data from disaster, such as RAID
mirroring (to an extent); journaling; UPS protection; and simple backup,
but on systems that use proprietary data formats such as Windows, with a
blob (actually 5 blobs) of incomprehensible data, the only way to repair
corruption (of any type) to that data, is to restore from backup, if you
actually /have/ a backup.
Under GNU/Linux, *repair* is actually possible - under Windows it isn't.
> I'll admit to some concerns about reiserfs, mostly because of lack of
> atomicity (as yttrx pointed out). I use ext3 on this laptop.
Reiser doesn't support extended attributes for SELinux, which is mainly
why I don't use it.
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K.
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