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Only with a UPSOnly with a UPSPosted Sep 21, 2009 7:20 UTC (Mon) by efexis (guest, #26355)In reply to: Only with a UPS by Cato Parent article: POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES
Although I wouldn't recommend using S(ync) as the third option for rebooting the system, after terminating processes etc. If the system's becoming unstable, syncing the drives is the very first thing I'd want to do. I prefer the order S-E-I-U-B. AFAIA, an S before U is redundant as buffers are written out as part of the remount-ro process, so a seperate sync() isn't needed (if anyone knows otherwise please correct me).
But of all those, the U is the most important, as if it succeeds it will protect your filesystem. You may end up with some left over temp files as tasks that didn't receive the terminate request signal didn't clean up after themselves, but this is usually not too great a cost.
Alex
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Only with a UPS Posted Sep 22, 2009 6:13 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Yes, personally I prefer the mnemonic Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring.
Only with a UPS Posted Sep 22, 2009 9:28 UTC (Tue) by efexis (guest, #26355) [Link]
Does the R do much? If you're rebooting/etc anyway... if the kernel's able to trap the Alt+SysRq+R, then it can trap the S/E/I/U/B keys too? Or is there another reason for it?
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