Comments on: ==== EPIC FAIL ==== http://jamesgecko.com/2009/06/epic-fail/ Hacker in progress Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: James http://jamesgecko.com/2009/06/epic-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-57 James Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:34:19 +0000 http://jamesgecko.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-57 <p>Yeah, I probably should have specified that the second picture was after the fsck. I pretty much left it like that all summer and did my job in a quick VirtualBoxed Ubuntu install in Windows.</p> <p>Shortly before the semester started, I ran one of those nifty directory space usage tools on the mess of files and discovered 95% of my home directory unharmed in folder #420. The remaining 5% doesn't seem to have been amazingly critical, but enough of it was scattered about to make me freak out and assume the rest of it was like that, also.</p> Yeah, I probably should have specified that the second picture was after the fsck. I pretty much left it like that all summer and did my job in a quick VirtualBoxed Ubuntu install in Windows.

Shortly before the semester started, I ran one of those nifty directory space usage tools on the mess of files and discovered 95% of my home directory unharmed in folder #420. The remaining 5% doesn’t seem to have been amazingly critical, but enough of it was scattered about to make me freak out and assume the rest of it was like that, also.

]]> By: James http://jamesgecko.com/2009/06/epic-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-100 James Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:34:00 +0000 http://jamesgecko.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-100 <p>Yeah, I probably should have specified that the second picture was after the fsck. I pretty much left it like that all summer and did my job in a quick VirtualBoxed Ubuntu install in Windows.</p> <p>Shortly before the semester started, I ran one of those nifty directory space usage tools on the mess of files and discovered 95% of my home directory unharmed in folder #420. The remaining 5% doesn't seem to have been amazingly critical, but enough of it was scattered about to make me freak out and assume the rest of it was like that, also.</p> Yeah, I probably should have specified that the second picture was after the fsck. I pretty much left it like that all summer and did my job in a quick VirtualBoxed Ubuntu install in Windows.

Shortly before the semester started, I ran one of those nifty directory space usage tools on the mess of files and discovered 95% of my home directory unharmed in folder #420. The remaining 5% doesn’t seem to have been amazingly critical, but enough of it was scattered about to make me freak out and assume the rest of it was like that, also.

]]> By: Malcolm http://jamesgecko.com/2009/06/epic-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Malcolm Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:36:57 +0000 http://jamesgecko.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-55 <p>I know this is probably a little bit too late to fix anything... but a simple fsck would have repaired all of that......</p> <p>as root run:</p> <p>fsck /dev/sda1 (or whatever disk it is)</p> I know this is probably a little bit too late to fix anything… but a simple fsck would have repaired all of that……

as root run:

fsck /dev/sda1 (or whatever disk it is)

]]> By: Malcolm http://jamesgecko.com/2009/06/epic-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Malcolm Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:36:00 +0000 http://jamesgecko.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-99 <p>I know this is probably a little bit too late to fix anything... but a simple fsck would have repaired all of that......</p> <p>as root run:</p> <p>fsck /dev/sda1 (or whatever disk it is)</p> I know this is probably a little bit too late to fix anything… but a simple fsck would have repaired all of that……

as root run:

fsck /dev/sda1 (or whatever disk it is)

]]> By: Ben L. http://jamesgecko.com/2009/06/epic-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Ben L. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:32:30 +0000 http://jamesgecko.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-39 <p>I had over a dozen dirty poweroffs with JFS, and never had corruption issues. It may be disk dependent however.</p> I had over a dozen dirty poweroffs with JFS, and never had corruption issues. It may be disk dependent however.

]]> By: Ben L. http://jamesgecko.com/2009/06/epic-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Ben L. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:32:00 +0000 http://jamesgecko.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-98 <p>I had over a dozen dirty poweroffs with JFS, and never had corruption issues. It may be disk dependent however.</p> I had over a dozen dirty poweroffs with JFS, and never had corruption issues. It may be disk dependent however.

]]> By: James http://jamesgecko.com/2009/06/epic-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-23 James Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:15:51 +0000 http://jamesgecko.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-23 <p>I've heard that JFS does not deal well with unexpected power outages on PC class hardware, either. It's meant to be used on servers where yanking the power cord gives you a few seconds before it dies and triggers an interrupt which shuts everything down safely.</p> <p>http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7zvgy/why<em>not</em>to<em>use</em>jfs<em>on</em>desktop/?sort=top</p> I’ve heard that JFS does not deal well with unexpected power outages on PC class hardware, either. It’s meant to be used on servers where yanking the power cord gives you a few seconds before it dies and triggers an interrupt which shuts everything down safely.

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7zvgy/whynottousejfsondesktop/?sort=top

]]> By: James http://jamesgecko.com/2009/06/epic-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-97 James Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:15:00 +0000 http://jamesgecko.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-97 <p>I've heard that JFS does not deal well with unexpected power outages on PC class hardware, either. It's meant to be used on servers where yanking the power cord gives you a few seconds before it dies and triggers an interrupt which shuts everything down safely.</p> <p>http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7zvgy/why<em>not</em>to<em>use</em>jfs<em>on</em>desktop/?sort=top</p> I’ve heard that JFS does not deal well with unexpected power outages on PC class hardware, either. It’s meant to be used on servers where yanking the power cord gives you a few seconds before it dies and triggers an interrupt which shuts everything down safely.

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7zvgy/whynottousejfsondesktop/?sort=top

]]> By: Ben L. http://jamesgecko.com/2009/06/epic-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Ben L. Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:04:40 +0000 http://jamesgecko.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-21 <p>All this makes me happy that filesystems are the one thing I don't go cutting edge on. Been runnin' on JFS for over 2 years, and never lost a file from corruption.</p> <p>Yeah yeah, salt on the wound. :P</p> All this makes me happy that filesystems are the one thing I don’t go cutting edge on. Been runnin’ on JFS for over 2 years, and never lost a file from corruption.

Yeah yeah, salt on the wound. :P

]]> By: Ben L. http://jamesgecko.com/2009/06/epic-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Ben L. Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:04:00 +0000 http://jamesgecko.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-96 <p>All this makes me happy that filesystems are the one thing I don't go cutting edge on. Been runnin' on JFS for over 2 years, and never lost a file from corruption.</p> <p>Yeah yeah, salt on the wound. :P</p> All this makes me happy that filesystems are the one thing I don’t go cutting edge on. Been runnin’ on JFS for over 2 years, and never lost a file from corruption.

Yeah yeah, salt on the wound. :P

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