Kill the power faster than poweroff?

[Ariel Sabiguero]

David Mathog wrote:

>However it doesn't do so cleanly, neither
>does:
>
>  % sync ; poweroff -f
>
>In both cases there were inodes to fix and the disks were
>rescanned on the next boot.  Which is fine - much easier
>to handle that sort of problem than fried hardware.
>
That depends on the data on disk. Sometimes it is cheaper to waste a CPU 
than to restore a highly complex DB.
Maybe a journaled filesystem (jfs,ext3,reiser) could help at this point 
to give your filesystem the coherence that might get lost due to the 
poweroff.

Good luck!

Ariel

>
>Thanks,
>
>David Mathog
>mathog at caltech.edu
>Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
>
>  
>


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