Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 20:39:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, burt@focusplus.com, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: ? power outages and file system corruption Message-ID: <199708271839.UAA00943@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970826221016.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> from "Simon Shapiro" at Aug 26, 97 10:10:16 pm
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As Simon Shapiro wrote... > > Hi Wilko Bulte; On 26-Aug-97 you wrote: > > ... > > > These things are mostly used for NFS servers. Called 'Prestoserve' > > and not limited to only Sun machines. I think there is even a special > > NVRAM SIMM you can put into your Sparcstation. > > That was a standard feature on all DEC Vax 7xx. I saw it on 750's and Hmm, battery backed up RAM was an option. > 780's. Unix could not make use of it for some reason. But RSTS and > VMS sure did. And on our Philips P4000 & P9000 mini's. Called powerfail restart. P9000 ran SVR2, heavily modified by Philips. > So, what else is new and advanced? :-) As usual, nothing.. ;-) Simply use core memory. Power? Who needs power? _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda
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