MicroVAX 3100 booting question...

From: Brian Chase <bdc_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri Apr 27 19:40:38 2001

On 27 Apr 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Bill Pechter skrev:

> > If the critical application has a file open and it loses it when you
> > pull the power in an unexpected manor you could lose data.
>
> While I don't agree with the programmer, I take care to turn off actual
> programs. That should however be enough IMNSHO.

Wow, so you'll go through all the bother of individual shutting down any
servers on the system instead of just typing a `shutdown' command which
would do that for you automatically using the init scripts?

Ohhh-kaaay... That seems like an awful lot of work on your part, going out
of your way to PUNISH THE STUPID FILESYSTEMS FOR NOT BEING SMARTER!!!

I take it you've never worked in a critical production environment, have
you? When your job is at stake (and therefore your financial well-being),
you don't try to prove a point by not shutting down systems properly...
Even when they are designed to handle such failures.

Now when you're evaluating systems for purchase. Hell yeah. Beat them to
death.

-brian.
Received on Fri Apr 27 2001 - 19:40:38 BST