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Date:      Wed, 21 May 1997 10:11:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com>
To:        larryd@bldg1.croute.com (Larry Dolinar)
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cluster Computing in BSD
Message-ID:  <199705211711.KAA10751@superior.mooseriver.com>
In-Reply-To: <204A515F05@bldg1.croute.com> from Larry Dolinar at "May 21, 97 10:26:38 am"

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Larry Dolinar said:
>And the clouds parted on 21 May 97, and J Wunsch 
><joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> said:
>
>>As Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>>
>>> I don't doubt it, they receive good cash from everything they sell, the
>>> problem is that either their products suck (like AIX and AS400), ...
>>
>>AIX has it's good ends, too.  I would be more than happy to have their
>>LVM and JFS in FreeBSD, trust me.
>>
>>When i ran `shutdown' on an AIX machine some time ago, my colleague
>>asked me, apparently astonished: ``Why the heck do you do this?
>>Simply turn it off!''  :)
>
>Bet *he* never spent any significant time trying to revive a bootable 
>filesystem that got trashed by that approach...
>

AIX's JFS is robust enought that one can just turn off the power and not
trash the filesystem. The down side is JFS is a disk hog. Of course one
should alway perform a normal shutdown.

>>
>>-- 
>>cheers, J"org
>
>We just fired a guy that repeatedly ignored standard shutdown procedures 
>on one of our Sparc 10's.  His rationale: the Unix for Dummies book 
>didn't say anything about it.
>
>Good thing I didn't get to him first [diabolical laughter..]
>

The key here is the word "Dummies"


Josef

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