Re: beta testing version

At 12:30 AM 12/1/00 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>For example, I would hope that EMC
>disk systems handle power loss gracefully.

They must, their marketing literature says so :)

> But if you buy ordinary
>off the shelf PC hardware, you really do need to arrange for a UPS,
>and some sort of automatic shutdown if the UPS is running low.

Which is what disk subsystems like those from EMC do for you. They've
got build-in battery backup that lets them guarantee (assuming the
hardware's working right) that in the case of a power outage, all blocks
the operating system thinks have been written will in actuality be written
before the disk subsystem powers itself down.

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