Messages in this thread |  | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | | Subject | Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown? | | Date | Fri, 05 Jan 2001 12:04:40 +0000 |
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cw@f00f.org said: > Powering down a VCR whilst recording can damage the tape or even > worse have the tap get jammed in the video. I have also had a TV die > because it was unpowered from the mains without being switched off > first.
> Sure, these things don't always happen -- but they sometimes do. I > would argue things like VCRs and TVs are just more tolerant than more > complex systems -- not immune.
The reasoning here seems to be that because many other systems break under these circumstances, we shouldn't bother to make Linux reliable.
I don't quite understand that way of thinking.
I will continue to test the boards I work on with random power cycles and to consider the filesystem broken if it doesn't like that treatment.
-- dwmw2
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