From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 12:58:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10359 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:58:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10352 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:58:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA13569; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:54:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdL13563; Tue Jan 12 20:54:45 1999 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:54:42 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Mattias Pantzare cc: Matthew Dillon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates with symlinks? In-Reply-To: <199901121757.SAA04022@zed.ludd.luth.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Mattias Pantzare wrote: > > > 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. > It's even less of a probability that it's writing hwen you are in singe user mode with / mounted read-only.. (which is how this should be done unless you use a floppy or luoqi's fix) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message