Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:36:13 +0100 From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates with symlinks? Message-ID: <199901121757.SAA04022@zed.ludd.luth.se> In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:42:10 PST." <199901120042.QAA98330@apollo.backplane.com>
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> No no ... don't hit the reset key. If you make a mistake and hit reset > just as the HD is writing a sector, you'll loose the sector (or worse). > HD's do *NOT* have enough capacitance on the power bus to finish the > write. They really don't ... it's an computer geek's urban myth. Realy? Why would the power dissapear from the HD when I press the _reset_ button? Is it not a big propability that the HD is writing on a sector at a power failure on a loaded server? The disks usualy survive a power failure with no problems att all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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