On Wednesday 29 March 2006 17:41, James Wilkinson wrote: > > I've never trusted a vfat partition since. > > You know, it would be a lot more logical not to trust CPU fans... > The fact remains that I lost nothing from the ext3 partitions. > Modern CPUs are provided with fans for a reason. Some CPUs are better > than others at halting the system when the fan fails -- it sounds like > you experienced quite a bit of collateral damage. > Actually, I think it's truer to say that some motherboards are better at halting the system when a fan fails. If it had been the only system in the room I might have saved it by manual intervention, but I mis-heard the source and hit the wrong shutdown button. > In particular, you can't trust a CPU to work as designed in such cases, > and any writes to disk are dodgy. > > Actually, come to think of it, not trusting computers or *any* > filesystems would also be a logical conclusion. > > At least, not trusting them enough that you run regular backups. > I'm sure you have met Murphy and his cousid Sod ;-) Almost everything was backed up, but the newest set of holiday photos wasn't. Anne
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