Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:05:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Jim Arnold <jim@ohio.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots: how common in general? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10107251205331.17711-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <a0510030db7849793fb2d@[206.128.102.10]>
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Ive only had freebsd reboot like that if ram was bad, the swap partition was on a bad drive, and only once where the filesystem was corrupted. On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Jim Arnold wrote: > I have been working with FreeBSD now (4.3 Stable and Release) for the past few > months on several different boxes. Before that I was running Slackware Linux > for about a year and and half. > > On three of four different occasions I have had my FreeBSD boxes spontaneously > reboot. Once it was due to an NFS situation (from what I could guess) > and two or three other times > it was due to me trying to mount a cdrom that shouldn't be mounted or > a cdrom that had a bad file on it > that didn't want to be copied to the hard drive. > > How common, in general, are spontaneous reboots in the FreeBSD world? > I never once > had my Linux box just give up like FreeBSD seems willing to do. From > what I have read > softupdates adds a layer of protection again system corruption in > these situations. > > I guess my expectations coming to FreeBSD from Slackware were pretty > high so I am somewhat > surprised this has happened as often as it has. Other than that, my > experience with FreeBSD has > been great. It's head and shoulders above Linux in everything else. > > Can anyone give some insights or perspective on this? Is this FreeBSD > glass jaw? How serious > or potentially damaging are these kinds of spontaneous reboots and > why does FreeBSD seem more > prone to these than Linux. Even if I did something stupid I didn't > expect FreeBSD to just take its > toys, reboot and go home. > > Just wondering what other's experiences are. > > Thanks, > Jim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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