RE: [cobalt-users] Cannot get any intelligent response from Qube 3

["Chris Demain" <cdemain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [1] Not that this should really effect it -- Linux should be able to
>     stand up to a bit of dirty shutdown.

Not so.  ext2 (the bog-standard Linux filesystem) is not a journaling file
system[2], and can get VERY badly damaged in a bad shutdown.  Not to mention
that the physical hard disk itself would respond badly to having the heads
smack the platter.  Linux can do many things for you, but it's role in life
is to be the kind of server that DOESN'T have to be shutdown, not survive
them gracefully.

-Chris

[1] NMF
[2] ext3 is an extension to ext2 and does provide journalling.  It's
available for most modern Linuxes (which Cobalt's is not) and kernel 2.4.x
(which Cobalt's is not).