From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 11 09:58:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA04442 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 09:58:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk (csubl@nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk [137.205.148.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA04434 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 09:58:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Mr M P Searle Message-Id: <13323.199705111654@nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Received: by nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk id RAA13323; Sun, 11 May 1997 17:54:53 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: shutdown In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "May 11, 97 12:42:44 pm" To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 17:54:44 +0100 (BST) Cc: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sun, 11 May 1997, Mr M P Searle wrote: > > > Would it break anything if the X server was kept running while shutting down? > > (Nothing else, just that one process. The root window is set before starting > > 'halt' - and maybe set again after the 5 seconds.) > > > > Michael, who has too much free time... > > I think that would mean that /usr couldn't be dismounted, which would mean > that you wouldn't get a clean shutdown on the /usr filesystem, and it > would end up being fsck'ed on startup. I have a big disk, and wouldn't > want to have to wait on that all the time. No - what if the server was on it's own file system? (which wasn't ever fsck'd as it has nothing but the server on it.) My guess is that I'd get a slow shutdown as not all buffers could be written to disk, but the reboot would be OK. Does that sound right?