On Mar 18, 2007, at 10:09 AM, 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.)
>
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

Ok, I'll bite.

One of my weekend tasks sometime is to see if I can get my newly- 
installed USB card working with a UPS.
I have a few brands around.

What is supported well in terms of UPS features, and what is not?

Thanks-

Brian