In alt.engineering.electrical Laurence Payne lpayne1NOSPAM@dsldotpipexdotcom wrote:
| On 27 Dec 2006 02:40:50 GMT, wrote:
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|| Or the punters demanded it small and cheap. Lots of equipment
|| requires a shut-down cycle. You're used to it with your computer,
|| your ink-jet printer. If they reckon the projector bulb will last
|| longer with controlled cooling, why should we take an attitude?
|
|My computer has survived dozens of sudden power outages with no problem
|whatsoever. The printer seems to still be working fine, too (but I'm not
|stressing it with a dozen reams a day).
|
| Yeah, and mostly it will. But one day you'll lose data, or corrupt a
| disk's file structure.

Reiserfs is designed specifically to avoid that. Most partitions are in
that format. The ext2 partitions are mounted read/only.


| Are you sure you're not arguing your point a LITTLE harder than it
| deserves? :-)

I'm sure. Things _can_ be hardened again power outages.

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