Re: safe file systems

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
26 Sep 1997 11:52:42 -0700


In article <linux.kernel.60fk8n$1fc$1@palladium.transmeta.com>,
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
>Followup to: <60eacu$o7u@pell.pell.portland.or.us>
>By author: o.r.c@transmeta.com (david parsons)
>In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>>
>> Readonly file systems don't, as a general rule, care that much if you
>> turn off the power while they're in full cry...
>>
>
>Not just "as a general rule". Readonly filesystems are perfectly safe
>to cut the power on (barring hardware failure, of course.)

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