Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:40:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:40:08 -0500 Received: from relay03.cablecom.net ([62.2.33.103]:43783 "EHLO relay03.cablecom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:40:03 -0500 Message-ID: <3AB68A91.9785A9D0@bluewin.ch> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:39:13 +0100 From: Otto Wyss Reply-To: otto.wyss@bluewin.ch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Linux should better cope with power failure In-Reply-To: <3FA68C00B3E3A3418373DA6446330DD30328E0@spike.i405.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Stephen Gutknecht (linux-kernel)" wrote: > > Otto, > [...] > Have you considered telnet into your box from a second machine? Even a 486 > system would do this fine... network cards are cheap. You could try to > recover the system or at least do a shutdown. > It was just a simple test machine where it didn't matter what was lost. Still that doesn't justify this behaviour. O. Wyss - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/