MicroVAX 3100 booting question...

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Sat Apr 28 04:47:45 2001

Brian Chase skrev:

>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?

Servers? Hell no, they're just serving things.

>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!!!

Not particularly. Most programs can be turned off in a standardised fashion.

>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.

Of course I haven't. Computers are just toys to me.

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

Nah, I wouldn't care about that either. After all, they're just toys.

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