Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:54:42 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates with symlinks? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990112125326.1540D-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199901121757.SAA04022@zed.ludd.luth.se>
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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
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