Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen Gutknecht (linux-kernel)" <> | Subject | RE: Linux should better cope with power failure | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:11:16 -0800 |
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Otto,
If you are doing development work (or playing with new kernels) and things like USB failures lock you from keyboard and mouse...
Have you considered telnet into your box from a second machine? Even a 486 system would do this fine... network cards are cheap. You could try to recover the system or at least do a shutdown.
Maybe there are reason you have ruled this out; just making sure you haven't overlooked a possible prevention solution.
Stephen Gutknecht Renton, Washington http://www.RoundSparrow.com/
-----Original Message----- From: Otto Wyss [mailto:otto.wyss@bluewin.ch] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:47 AM To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Linux should better cope with power failure
Lately I had an USB failure, leaving me without any access to my system since I only use an USB-keyboard/-mouse. All I could do in that situation was switching power off and on after a few minutes of inactivity. From the impression I got during the following startup, I assume Linux (2.4.2, EXT2-filesystem) is not very suited to any power failiure or manually switching it off. Not even if there wasn't any activity going on. [snip] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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