Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 17:54:44 +0100 (BST) From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Cc: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown Message-ID: <13323.199705111654@nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970511124125.248D-100000@Journey2.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "May 11, 97 12:42:44 pm"
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> 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?help
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