R. D. Davis skrev:
>On 26 Apr 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>> I have no respect for a system which needs to be pampered before one
>> may hit the power switch, so nowadays, I just flick the switch when
>> I feel like it, be the system Windows, Mac or UNIX. Haven't had the
>> opportunity with VMS yet. =)
>If that UNIX is Solaris 8, be prepared to fskc some filesystems
>manually when you power it back on. Even on my FreeBSD box and older
>Sun 4 that's running Solaris 2.4, both of which tend to come back up
>without any problems after a power failure, I still try to do a proper
>shutdown and halt... and yes, I still issue three sync commands before
>halting the system. Laugh at this superstition if you want to, but
>doing that on my Ultra running Solaris 8 seems to be the only way to
>get it to prepare it for powering off so that I don't have to do a
>manual fsck that prompts me for a lot of repetetive questions.
NetBSD and OpenBSD boxes seem to boot fine, albeit slowly.
>Anyway, to those running UNIX systems who are used to PeeCees running
>simpler operating systems and software, a word of advice: UNIX systems
>often have many processes running, some of which very well may be in
>the middle of writing to your hard disk when you switch the system off
>without a proper shutdown... particularly if you've got lots of things
>running like a database, have lots of cron jobs, have Apache running,
>etc. But, if you enjoy flirting with disaster and have good
>backups...
So what if they're writing to disk? If they have proper file systems that
won't really matter. Mind you, at least I always check that the drive lights
aren't on.
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Received on Thu Apr 26 2001 - 16:50:45 BST