Messages in this thread | | | From | allbery@kf8nh ... | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:36:30 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: The stability crisis |
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On 1 Jul, Aaron J. Grier wrote: +----- | On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 05:20:36PM -0400, Anthony Barbachan wrote: | > How about dumping to the swap partition along with a special sequence of | > bytes used as a flag. This way when the machine is brought back up the | | Although I kind of like this "feature," if your OS is wigging out, there | are no guarantees that you're actually writing data to the swap partition. +--->8
As I discovered once with SCO 3.2.4. *ouch*
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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