Re: safe file systems

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
26 Sep 1997 06:21:11 GMT

Followup to: <60eacu$o7u@pell.pell.portland.or.us>
By author: o.r.c@transmeta.com (david parsons)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Readonly file systems don't, as a general rule, care that much if you
> turn off the power while they're in full cry...
>

Not just "as a general rule". Readonly filesystems are perfectly safe
to cut the power on (barring hardware failure, of course.)

-hpa

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