Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?
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Being able to shut down by hitting the power switch is a little luxury for which I've been willing to invest more than a year of my life to attain. Clueless newbies don't know why it should be any other way, and it's essential for embedded devices.
Just some food for thought - hitting the power switch on my old Indy actually performs the equivalent of "shutdown -r now"; the system only cuts the power when it's done cleaning up (sometimes several minutes later). I suspect most workstation-class systems do similar things.
Of course this creates a confusing distinction between "pulling the plug" and "hitting the power switch." Uninformed users might even be more bewildered by the flurry of disk activity after performing the latter; heck, I wouldn't blame someone who freaks out and pull the plug to make it stop =).
Also, such a system obviously has little benefit in the event of an AC power failure.
Dan
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