Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 5 Jan 2001 07:23:50 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown? |
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 06:15:26PM +0000, Mo McKinlay wrote:
Indeed - but unplugging your VCR from the wall won't harm it.
I disagree -- I have experience to the contrary.
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.
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