Hannu Krosing wrote: > > I agree with Tom on yanking the plug while it's operating. Do you > > know the difference between kill -9 and yanking the plug? > > Kill -9 seems to me _less_ severe than yanking the plug but much easier > to automate, so that could be the first thing to test. You have no hope > of passing the pull-the-plug test if you can't survive even kill -9. > > Perhaps we could have a special "reliability-regression" test that does > "kill -9 postmaster", repeatedly, at random intervals, and checks for > consistency ? > > Maybe we will find even some options for some OS'es to "force-unmount" > disks. I guess that setting IDE disk's to read-only with hdparm could > possibly achieve something like that on Linux.
Get VMWare for Linux, run whatever OS you like in it and "kill -9" the virtual machine. That's as close as you can get to "yanking" without wearing out your power plugs. Jan -- #======================================================================# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
