Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:49:06 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD Message-ID: <19970521204906.MY61475@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <204A515F05@bldg1.croute.com>; from Larry Dolinar on May 21, 1997 10:26:38 -0600 References: <Pine.A41.3.95.970520155953.24208A-100000@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>; <204A515F05@bldg1.croute.com>
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As Larry Dolinar wrote: > >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... You will have a very hard time getting an AIX machine to trash it in the first place, that was entirely my point. It probably requires an AK-47 or such... Usually, the AIX machine simply boots up and says: ``The /usr filesystem is clean, no checking needed.'' > We just fired a guy that repeatedly ignored standard shutdown procedures > on one of our Sparc 10's. No, i didn't speak about SunOS/Solaris. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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