Hi, ext3 is very reliable, i never had such issues (fsck after a power failure, yes... but no data loss). so i whould say its a hardware issue. Greetings On 08/12/2010 10:55 AM, Fajar Priyanto 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? > > Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >