[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Strange Request, Maybe?

Will Senn wsenn at postfuture.com
Thu May 10 12:06:40 CDT 2001


Good points.  FYI, I keep my systems on ups, the unexpected part is my
3 1/2 year old daughter and the power switch...

Later,

Will


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
> Of Chris Cox
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:50 PM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Strange Request, Maybe?
> 
> 
> THIS had NOTHING to do with power loss... I think you missed
> the point... NT crashed and failed to reboot successfully at ALL.
> No startup screen, no nothing.... was not due to a power loss,
> happened after getting a BSOD.
> 
> As I mentioned, both filesystems will exhibit abnormal behavior
> in certain circumstances on power hits.  ext2 could be more
> susceptible strictly because of how it buffers things... where
> NT has an all-or-nothing style (heavy cache, heavy write).
> 
> Regards,
> Chris
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