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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!rnzll3!sys3.pe1chl!rob From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl Organization: PE1CHL Message-ID: <DMrCI9.3Iu@pe1chl.ampr.org> 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> <4fokko$9nh@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:49:20 GMT Lines: 29 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14326 comp.os.linux.development.system:17965 In <4fokko$9nh@agate.berkeley.edu> grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Grady) writes: >"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. When the system is not working correctly, people are probably gazing at it and asking themselves what to do next. Then, after some time with no apparent activity, they pull the plug. When the system has not really crashed, it probably has synced the disks by then. Rob -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rob Janssen rob@knoware.nl | BBS: +31-302870036 (2300-0730 local) | | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8WNO.#UTR.NLD.EU | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+