best filesystem for imap server

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Thu Dec 2 15:32:59 EST 2004


On Thu, 02 Dec 2004, John Madden wrote:
> > I think they use capacitors that will hold enough charge to allow
> > flushing the buffers to disk when there's a power loss.
> 
> And another set of caps to keep the spindles spinning so that data can be
> written?  I'm not yet willing to buy the bridge you're selling. :)

They don't have to.  OTOH, if the drive hits a bad sector while on emergency
write mode... well...  I doubt it would have enough rotational speed AND
electric power to move the heads that much.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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