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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!news.biddeford.com!not-for-mail From: swanton@river.biddeford.com (george p swanton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Date: 17 Feb 1996 11:29:16 -0500 Organization: Biddeford Internet Corp. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4g4vos$2e8@river.biddeford.com> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <4fo1tu$n31@news.jf.intel.com> <4frdur$hq@galaxy.ucr.edu> <4g0jll$8l9@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.biddeford.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14519 comp.os.linux.development.system:18232 >grif@corsa.ucr.edu (Michael Griffith) wrote: >Any time you boot a system and the clean bit wasn't set during >the shutdown process, you may have "silently correpted data". > >Write your applications so that they recover from container >object failures [...] Could you offer some references on this subject? (ie writing applications so that they can recover from such failures) My database experience is all very high level, I would be interested in the operation of such recovery mechanisms. BTW: the attributions/nesting are getting complicated; if I edited incorrectly and mis-attributed the excerted text, my appologies.