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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Linux should better cope with power failure
Date: 20 Mar 2001 13:38:04 -0800
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Followup to:  <3AB68A91.9785A9D0@bluewin.ch>
By author:    Otto Wyss <otto.wyss@bluewin.ch>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> It was just a simple test machine where it didn't matter what was lost.
> Still that doesn't justify this behaviour.
> 

Then use a journalling filesystem.  If not, give it a few minutes of
idle time; fsck will complain on boot but it should be able to clean
up the mess.

	-hpa
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