From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 09:58:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18686 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:58:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zed.ludd.luth.se (zed.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18669 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:58:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pantzer@speedy.ludd.luth.se) Received: from speedy.ludd.luth.se (speedy.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.164]) by zed.ludd.luth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA04022; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:57:17 +0100 Message-Id: <199901121757.SAA04022@zed.ludd.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Matthew Dillon cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates with symlinks? In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Dillon of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:42:10 PST." <199901120042.QAA98330@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:36:13 +0100 From: Mattias Pantzare Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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