From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 27 12:05:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA28180 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:05:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA28158 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA08797 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Wed, 27 Aug 1997 21:05:04 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id UAA00943; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 20:39:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199708271839.UAA00943@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: ? power outages and file system corruption To: Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 20:39:22 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, burt@focusplus.com, terry@lambert.org In-Reply-To: from "Simon Shapiro" at Aug 26, 97 10:10:16 pm X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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