Power outage now my server asks for fck, what to do?

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 17:25, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
>
> I've had several machines running ext4 or other journaling filesytems
> survive major power failures without as much as a blink. That's the
> point of having a journaling file system. Coherency is always
> maintained. ZFS handles that also quite well...

So far, my home ZFS box has handled several unexpected outages without
a blink. This is good.

I'm not saying it never works. I'm not saying it is no better than a
_non_-journalled FS.

(Although there is a whole other discussion to be had about
journalling filesystems on Flash media.)

I'm just saying that while many people seem to think that journalling
filesystems are safe from damage from unexpected dismounting, and that
they never need to be checked/repaired, neither is true.

> Now if your filesystem is not fully supported (btrfs) or not
> journalized, then this is another story.

Btrfs _is_ fully supported by some Linux vendors. I work for one. They
love it, and I get a _lot_ of criticism because I personally don't
like it and don't 100% trust it.

I believe Fedora is adopting it too, and may already have switched to
it for the current release. (I don't like Fedora much and do not run
it on anything, personally. This is partly why I no longer work for
Red Hat.)

> I don't control the OS on which my key applications are made
> available... both for work (my employer provides my machine) and for my
> photography work (try running DxO on Linux). Actually for work, I moved
> the original Windows partition to a VMDK file, installed Ubuntu, and run
> Windows in VBox (I still need Windows to authenticate to the corporate
> environment).

Well, no, of course not. Fair enough. I was just surprised to see it
on a Linux list, and from an FSF email address.

> And I use a payed version of Avast. Why do you make the assumption that
> it is free?

Well, 2 reasons. Avast now owns AVG; I used to work for AVG, too. In
AVG, only the freeware version used to insert itself into your sig;
this was one of the ways that the company acquired new customers --
it's a small free advertisement that did not usually upset people.

I have not seen a paid A/V program do this before.

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