At Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:55:29 +0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi guys, I don't mean to incite debate or something, just want to share experience and a little curiosity.
Back long time ago, we have an old file MS W2K (NTFS) server where due no admin was available to manage it, the server would get power off when the office closed, and auto power on again in the morning. That thing happened for years and it was fine ^^
Recently, I setup a Centos 5.5 file server with ext3 and got power blackout twice and I notice the filesystem got corrupted and also bad sectors.
Is it just pure random luck, software or hardware issue? What's your experience?
We (way back when while I was working at UMass) bought two Gateway desktop boxes (identical machines with identical Quantum SCSI disks). One got MS-Windows NT 4 installed on it, the other RedHat Linux. Within a month the RedHat box reported disk errors (nothing totally fatal, just bad sector I/O). We had the disk replaced with a Seagate SCSI disk and the machine was happy for years. Not a peep out of the NT box for like 7 months, then it basically died due to disk failure. We *suspected* that the disk probably was having trouble all along, but NT was totally 'oblivious' to the errors...
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