Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

Alan Cox
2001-01-04T17:58:18Z

> for crying out loud, even windows tells the users they need to shutdown
> first and gripes at them if they pull the plug. what users are you trying
> to protect, ones to clueless to even run windows?

Clueless ? Hardly. Every other appliance in the home you turn it off and it
goes off. You turn it on and it comes on. You get confused you turn it off and
on. Its the definitive model of how home appliances works and its how people
expect them to work.

In the embedded world you will regularly see adherence to that model in
the specification. Firstly because the users do it, secondly because power
cuts ensure it happens anyway

Alan