From: weage@resnet.gatech.edu (Joshua Weage) Subject: Re: pentium bug 9 Nov 1997 13:15:34 -0800 Message-ID: <01bced3f$7b519d00$5f353d80.cygnus.gnu-win32@weage.resnet.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Alex" Cc: "root" , >> So what is the problem with a hard reboot? Your system will not be >> insecure, it will just crash. The same thing can be done to a sun >> workstation, not quite as quick, but it is possible to force a hard reboot >> with no other available options to get the system back up. > >With filesystems other than FAT{16|32}, this can lead to data loss due to >filesystem corruption, which is a problem. On any system this can lead to >loss of whatever data is in ram, before your system crashes, on a server >like system this can also force costly downtime. I realize that it can cause file corruption, but like I said above, it is possible to crash UNIX based systems also. No system is 100% crash free, it is just easier to cause crashes on certain types of systems. Josh - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".