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Re: pentium bug
- To: "Alex" <garbanzo at hooked dot net>
- Subject: Re: pentium bug
- From: "Joshua Weage" <weage at resnet dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 13:44:16 -0500
- Cc: "root" <root at jacob dot remcomp dot fr>, <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
>> So what is the problem with a hard reboot? Your system will not be
>> insecure, it will just crash. The same thing can be done to a sun
>> workstation, not quite as quick, but it is possible to force a hard
reboot
>> with no other available options to get the system back up.
>
>With filesystems other than FAT{16|32}, this can lead to data loss due to
>filesystem corruption, which is a problem. On any system this can lead to
>loss of whatever data is in ram, before your system crashes, on a server
>like system this can also force costly downtime.
I realize that it can cause file corruption, but like I said above, it
is possible to crash UNIX based systems also. No system is 100% crash free,
it is just easier to cause crashes on certain types of systems.
Josh
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