Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:25:14 +0000 (GMT) | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown? |
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Nothing wrong with a filesystem (or apps) that can handle being > > powered down. But I prefer to handle this kind of users with a > > power switch that merely acts as a "shutdown button" instead of > > actually killing power. The os will then run the equivalent of > > "shutdown -h now" > > And you give your customer clear instructions that they are not under > any circumstances to unplug the device without turning it off first? > And when they do it anyway you void their warranty?
s/unplug the device/remove the battery/ makes it _slightly_ more sensible but not a lot.
I spent a week with an X10 controller and a device with JFFS root filesystem running dbench from init, power cycling it every five minutes. If JFFS at least doesn't survive unclean shutdowns, I want to know about it.
-- dwmw2
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