From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 21 11:51:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA27587 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 11:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA27580 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 11:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA20525 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 21 May 1997 20:51:33 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA01104; Wed, 21 May 1997 20:49:06 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970521204906.MY61475@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: ; <204A515F05@bldg1.croute.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <204A515F05@bldg1.croute.com>; from Larry Dolinar on May 21, 1997 10:26:38 -0600 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)