Re: More robust filesystem?
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> |> Then people will use the power off switch. And I can't cut that off
> |> because it's used to switch the workstations off when the lab closes!
>
> I happened to be in the public library of the Beaubourg in Paris this
> summer, looking for some free net access.
>
> They provide a roomfull of machines from which people can use
> netscape, telnet and so on for free. I was interested to notice that
> all of these machines were running Linux (don't know what
> flavour). And I was fascinated and horrified to notice that every user
> ended their session by simply hitting the power-off button. Finesse
> gallique. The machines rebooted without complaint every time
> though. Each machine must have this happen to it at least 30 or 40
> times a day.
>
> So there must be some way to do it,
>
> Jim
Maybe the local drive is read-only and the writable stuff is on a server.
Paul
Reply to: