Reliability of System V 1K file system

[Larry Snyder]

ir at cel.co.uk (ian reid) writes:

>Forgive if this has been discussed before, but we have recently suffered a long
>break in news at this site.  My question is very simple, the reliability of the
>System V 1K file system when a machine is subjected to a power cycle without
>going through a proper shutdown sequence.  Unfortunately on our system an UPS
>is not an option (too price sensitive).

NSTAR is here primarily for news distribution - and sometimes looses power
twice a week anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes (that is normal here).  The system
comes right back up, rechecks the file system (that takes some time) then
continues processing mail.  We are running 2.2 386/ix with SCSI drives - and
have the write behind in the kernel set to 180 seconds - so at the worst case
we will loose some news -
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