From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jan 26 14: 9:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EED41538B for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:09:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA52680; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:38:51 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:38:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Michael S. O'Donnell" Cc: Mike Wade , "Jeffrey S. Sharp" , freebsd-small Subject: Accidental reset/power off (was: your mail) Message-ID: <20000127083851.B44457@freebie.lemis.com> References: <388F299C.8976DAC5@bus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <388F299C.8976DAC5@bus.net> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 26 January 2000 at 12:06:36 -0500, Michael S. O'Donnell wrote: >>>> Also it would be nice to have an "accidental power off" safe file >>>> system when using hard drives for embedded devices such as >>>> Internet Appliances. > > i just started developing a hardware solution for this for a client > who has servers going to trade shows where uniformed individuals > occasionally take it upon themselves to 'push the button'. i don't > mind losing the project to a software solution. i know that would > be the solution the client would prefer (hardware would require me to > build a new unit for every different server; the design doesn't change, > but, the footprint and mounting does). if anyone knows how to do it, > please tell me and/or the list. i will request that the client make > the solution available under the FreeBSD license (my hardware solution > will not be). the client runs _all_ systems under FreeBSD and i'm > quite confident he would welcome the opportunity to contribute. Again, mounting the file systems read only is a good way to achieve this goal. But for money I'll follow up with some alternatives :-) Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message