Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:57:55 +0200 Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx at telenet.be> wrote: > Maybe I might throw in a warning: I use a active/passive iSCSI server based on > Heartbeat and DRBD as well and it serves both blockdevices for Xen guests as > storage for a Novell NSS file system. After deliberately failing over (so > minimal disconnection time) the volume survived all the time, except for one: > it was corrupted. Novell technical services pointed out this could happen to > any filesystem since it is the equivalent of pulling the harddrive cable. No halfway-decent filesystem should become corrupted after sudden power-loss. There may be loss of file data that has not yet been comitted to disk, but it definitely should not become corrupted. With Ext3/4 you may need to adjust the data= mode to something that recovers better, AND you need to be using a disk which supports barriers (eg. NOT an LVM), but integrity should be maintained. Some others (eg. ext2) may need to have any non-battery-backed cache disabled, or other options changed to ensure metadata isn't lost.