From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 16 17: 1:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from if.scientech.com (eaglerock.if.scientech.com [198.60.85.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E265815160 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 17:01:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@scientech.com) Received: from localhost (cmott@localhost) by if.scientech.com (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA22549; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:00:35 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: if.scientech.com: cmott owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:00:35 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott To: Steve Passe Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: power-off without halt In-Reply-To: <199903162031.NAA01135@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Steve Passe wrote: > Several people have suggested a UPS based solution. This is to look like > an instrument, ie a small black box. Not enough room for a UPS internally, > and nothing to prevent a user from unplugging it. The ideas about > honker caps for ~60-100ms uptime might be workable. > > The ideas along the lines of an MFS based working partition, with everything > else mounted readonly also has merit. I'll be back after mulling this over > some more... > > thanx again, > -- > Steve Passe | powered by > smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Would running from a ram disk be feasible? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message