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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:10:41 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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swanton@river.biddeford.com (george p swanton) wrote:
] >grif@corsa.ucr.edu (Michael Griffith) wrote:
[ this is actually me responding to Michael ]
] >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.
All of the references are very low level. Start with the IBM
textbooks on database design used in 300 and 400 level college
courses, and work from the bibliographies from there.
I'm sure there are web references, since it's so well known, but
you can search yahoo as easily as me. 8-).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.