[mythtv-users] Mythtv FE in a frequent power loss environment
Simon Hobson
linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Tue Dec 8 15:56:15 UTC 2009
Johnny Walker wrote:
> > My diskless frontend has lost power several times and never suffered
>> any ill effects from it. It would be impossible for it to corrupt the
>> filesystem, as the integrity of that would be the responsibility of
> > the nfs server machine.
>Wow - I'd like to pick your brain on NFS settings if you've never had
>an issue with NFS and data loss especially in a power failure
>environment.
Err, the statement above is correct - a client crash should not be
able to damage the **file system**. As already stated, the worst it
should be able to do should be to damage an individual file that is
being updated at the time of the crash.
The ideal method would be to mount filesystems read-only. Send syslog
to another machine (such as the backend) instead of local files and
you can probably eliminate the requirements for any writable
filesystems on a frontend. Alternatively, put all the logging on it's
own filesystem and be prepared to fix it (ie reformat it) if it gets
damaged.
However, I've found ext3 to be very robust, and ext2 isn't bad. I
rather think that if you use ext3 then you're unlikely to have any
problems.
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