Mike Tomlinson writes:

En el artÃ*culo , The Natural Philosopher
escribió:

No OS can cope with a power loss in the middle of a disk write operation.

Look up journalling filesystems. examples: ext3 and NTFS.

So long as you have barriers enabled and/or the disk's write cache
disabled. Up to 64MB of data that the O/S thinks has been flushed but
the disk hasn't yet written isn't good.

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Alan J. Wylie http://www.wylie.me.uk/