"Andrew Gabriel" andrew@cucumber wrote in message
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"dennis@home" writes:


"Huge" wrote in message
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it doesn't matter what OS he's running: power cyckling is the only
option when all other methods have failed.

I'm just trying to remember the last time I had to reboot a Solaris
system
because "all other methods have failed", bearing in mind that I've been
responsible for thousands of them over decades. And the answer is ... so
rarely
does it happen that I cannot remember.

I had hundreds of SVr5 machines and we used to switch them off whenever
we
had an excuse.. it was one way of testing the journaling file system to
see
if it worked as required.

Journaling file system are so last millenium.
ZFS manages this fines without journaling... :-)

That's because it journals.

They may call it an intent log but it is a journal.

The veritas file system we were using also had an intent log so its not
something new.
In fact Sun acquired the source for it when the bought out SVr5 in the
eighties.