At 10:53 AM 4/27/01 +0100, Iggy wrote:
If they can't handle that, they don't belong in
any even remotely critical
applications.
You do realize, that at some very real timescale, shutting down a system is
one
of those problems where "real time" considerations crash head-on against
the very nature of optimal scheduling in high-performance Unix systems,
don't you? If you don't, I suggest you that get educated on what a hard drive
does when it thinks that 12V is going down the drain. Regardless
of which JFS it's got on it.
Carlos.
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