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michelinok

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Change .met folder
« on: March 13, 2011, 10:05:45 AM »
Hi there!
Is there a way to change the position of the .met files? (and not the .part!!!!).
When I loose my 220V (yes...220V not 110V) I usually lost 50% of my .met files, so i would change the position of the .met to a safer location than my nas (a micro sd on the machine running amuled i think is better uh?).

Any suggestion?
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Re: Change .met folder
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2011, 12:13:44 PM »
Quote from: michelinok on March 13, 2011, 10:05:45 AM
Is there a way to change the position of the .met files? (and not the .part!!!!).
No.

I suggest you choose a more crash resistant file system. (What are you using?)
You can also run a periodical skript copying the mets to a different place.
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Re: Change .met folder
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2011, 06:19:59 PM »
Quote from: Stu Redman on March 13, 2011, 12:13:44 PM
Quote from: michelinok on March 13, 2011, 10:05:45 AM
Is there a way to change the position of the .met files? (and not the .part!!!!).
No.

I suggest you choose a more crash resistant file system. (What are you using?)
You can also run a periodical skript copying the mets to a different place.

1) I'm using ext3
2) yes...that's what i'm doing atm  :P
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Re: Change .met folder
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2011, 10:32:06 PM »
Isn't ext3 supposed to be journaling? It shouldn't lose data just like that on a power outage.

Did you ever run a fsck on that drive?
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Re: Change .met folder
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2011, 01:27:41 AM »
Quote from: Stu Redman on March 13, 2011, 10:32:06 PM
Isn't ext3 supposed to be journaling?

But has 3 different journaling methods, each one more dangerous than the last. For someone with this situation, it should use journal instead of ordered or writeback. Journaling file contents instead of just metadata is critical in cases where power outages are a possibility.
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Re: Change .met folder
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2011, 08:00:18 AM »
I'm using an ups, and i've never had problems with data stored on the nas.
I'm currently loosing all the .met when i shutdown amule correctly using amulecmd (shutdown command is right??).

What do you suggest?

 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(


PS: I'm using (as always) the latest svn.
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