MicroVAX 3100 booting question...

From: healyzh_at_aracnet.com <(healyzh_at_aracnet.com)>
Date: Thu Apr 26 21:16:29 2001

> Has anyone else here found older versions of Solaris on older hardware
> to be more stable?

Define older hardware. On my Sparc 10 and 20 I run Solaris 2.6 as it's the
last version to support some of the hardware I use. Though I've been
threatening to move the Sparc 20 to Solaris 8 when I upgrade its harddrives.

> 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...

I'll put it another way, if you have the chance to shut a UNIX box down
properly and don't, you're a fool. Especially if the system is like my one
Linux box and has a lot of disk space hanging off of it (about 70GB), as
that's some serious fsck time! Personally if a system has an option to shut
it down gracefully, that's what I do, no matter the OS.

                        Zane
Received on Thu Apr 26 2001 - 21:16:29 BST