On 04-Jan-08, 11:36 (CST), Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erm, if a daemon loses data if it is given five seconds advance warning, > then it would also lose data on power loss, which is a bug and should be > fixed, not worked around.
No, it's not a bug, it's simply a fact of life for certain kinds of services: it can take more than 5 seconds to flush all the changes to disk, especially when all the other services on the machine are shutting down at the same time. And yes, a power loss would cause a data loss. That's why such systems are running from UPS's capable of initiating a shutdown several minutes before power runs out. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]