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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU!grady From: grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Grady) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Date: 13 Feb 1996 00:05:44 GMT Organization: Experimental Computing Facility, UC Berkeley Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4fokko$9nh@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <4f9skh$2og@dyson.iquest.net> <4fg8fe$j9i@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <311C5EB4.2F1CF0FB@freebsd.org> <4fjodg$o8k@venger.snds.com> <311DA774.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: grady@xcf.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: scam.xcf.berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14126 comp.os.linux.development.system:17747 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: >After a measured >amount of wall clock time, literally yank the plug out of the wall on >the test machine and bring it back up... By the way, in our application, we've got about 12 machines in the field, where the people with access to the machine are assumed to have _no_ tehcnical knowledge. When there are problems with the system, we've told them to just unplug the machine and plug it back in. This is certainly been done dozens of times, perhaps hundreds, in the last few months. Not _once_ have we had a machine fail to reboot succesfully. There's never been a problem of data corruption either. I seriously was _not_ expecting this to work as well as it has. I've been amazed and relieved. I am not doing any additional syncs (although perhaps I should). I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5. I have not tried Linux. -- Steven grady@xcf.berkeley.edu "Headache?" "No thanks, I've already got one."