Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: safe file systems | Date | 26 Sep 1997 20:22:43 GMT |
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Followup to: <60h09q$ael@pell.pell.portland.or.us> By author: o.r.c@transmeta.com (david parsons) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > In article <linux.kernel.60fk8n$1fc$1@palladium.transmeta.com>, > H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote: > >Followup to: <60eacu$o7u@pell.pell.portland.or.us> > >By author: o.r.c@transmeta.com (david parsons) > >In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > >> > >> Readonly file systems don't, as a general rule, care that much if you > >> turn off the power while they're in full cry... > >> > > > >Not just "as a general rule". Readonly filesystems are perfectly safe > >to cut the power on (barring hardware failure, of course.) > > California and the rest of the United States; Two countries separated > by a common language. >
Last I checked "as a common rule" implied there were exceptions, and that those exceptions were fairly common. I just wanted to clarify your post, as it at least to me implied that "yeah, it probably won't do anything bad to ya." Turning off a DOS system at random is an example on something that is "safe as a general rule" -- DOS will *usually* not trash your disk, but once in a while it will.
Anyway...
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