[ale] Strange happenings

[chip]

SSD's are known to somewhat randomly just go stupid and lose data.

See this google search:
http://www.google.com/search?aq=0&oq=SSD+losing+da&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ssd+losing+data

I've experienced it a few times myself.  OS just quits booting, files
gone, file corruption.  Seen this across many drives and different
manufacturers.  I must admit that I still do use an SSD for the OS but
all my data sits on disks with platters, mostly.   I don't know if
that's what has happened here, but I would warn anyone against putting
the fate of your data on an SSD.

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On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> Has the system rebooted since then and now? Maybe it rebooted in between
> flush intervals for one of the filesystems involved?
>
> What FS are you using? And what kernel version does the Nasty Nabber have?
> Have you checked 'dmesg' (or the log file for it in /var/log) for any clues?
>
> --
> Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!
>
> On Jul 7, 2011 10:18 PM, "Joshua Kite" <jwkite at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think I have a question, but I thought I'd share a very strange
>> experience.
>>
>> I'm running Ubuntu 11.04. I just finished rebuilding my box (moved to SSD)
>> and migrating my data. Everything was working fine yesterday, including
>> some NFS mounts. I logged in today and the mounts were gone. I mean
>> totally gone. The entries in /etc/fstab were gone. The directories were
>> gone. Nfs-common was uninstalled
>>
>> The only thing that remained were some dead symbolic links pointing to the
>> directories where they were to be mounted. Otherwise I would start to
>> question whether I had actually set everything up.
>>
>> Weirdness.
>>
>> Anyone else every have this happen? I'm starting to wonder if my 8 year
>> old
>> has learned the magic of apt-get...
>>
>> Josh Kite
>
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