On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> Unless it detects an unexpected error.  I encountered one just a few
> days ago -- duplicate block allocations...  (I'll be posting on that to
> the Xen list.)  On-board disk write caches can easily produce that kind
> of thing if there's a power hit.  (UPS?  Sure; I have one for each of
> my machines.  The machines also have no way of knowing when the UPS
> battery is dying, since last time I checked our USB stack was
> sufficiently incompatible with Linux's that the usual daemons don't
> work that way.)

 	Not that it helps you at this point, but if you have a
 	choice in future a a UPS with a serial port might help -
 	I've had very good luck with sysutils/ups-nut on Belkin
 	and Powerwave UPSs via serial cables...

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