> On Mar 23, 2024, at 11:04 AM, Doc Shipley via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> On 3/23/24 09:53, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>> Yes. So Unix did have a shutdown procedure, and it was particularly
>> critical to do it and do it right. I remember when I first heard about
>> Unix, when at the U of Illinois -- some PDP11s in the Center for Advanced
>> Computation ran it, for their Arpanet connection. The story was that CAC
>> was a good facility to run Unix because it had very reliable power -- it was
>> built to house Illiac 4 before that machine was moved to a military facility
>> in response to campus protests. So there was little worry about having to
>> repair the file system manually after a power failure -- I guess fsck hadn't
>> been created yet, or perhaps wasn't reliable yet.
>> paul
>
> You say that like fsck is reliable now....
:-} Then again, mostly it's no longer relevant, given journaled file systems.
paul
