Why to shutdown rather than powe r off computers

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Fri Apr 27 12:26:33 2001

> Some people don't understand any multitasking OS's.
> This will go on until he loses major data or trashes some disk structure.
> Even AIX's jfs will lose eventually in this situation.

But you do have to work at it. stockholm, this machine, is AIX 4.1.x and it's
tough to kill its disk. I've never had an error out of it, even with the
world's most pathological hard crashes, inexplicable UPS failures and stupid
people unplugging the wrong thing in the server room.

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