From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] More venti sync woes.
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:01:47 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190709272101w5ae5dc67vcbc86500c64aaba7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e4b0cbf1ae2326056214cac10b702ff@quanstro.net>
absurd .. a UPS is your friend. there is something else wrong.
brucee
On 9/28/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > it matters greatly.
> > in some cases, if there's a lot to do, don't even bother until dma is on.
> > otherwise, it takes simply ages.
>
> regardless of the need to get things onto disk due to memory pressure,
> the data's not safe from a momentary power problem until it hits
> the disk.
>
> my experience has been that even with upses, power is less reliable than
> disks.
>
> - erik
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-28 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 19:32 Anthony Sorace
2007-09-26 19:39 ` Steve Simon
2007-09-26 19:41 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-26 19:49 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-09-27 21:53 ` Russ Cox
2007-09-27 22:49 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-09-27 23:03 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-28 3:16 ` Russ Cox
2007-09-28 9:01 ` Kernel Panic
2007-09-28 16:35 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-09-27 23:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-28 0:10 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-28 0:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-28 0:19 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-28 4:01 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
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