A. Khattri wrote: >On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>power failure better than XFS from this test, but a complete power >>failure on a laptop is trivially easy to avoid...just don't remove the >>battery! Heck, one of the rubber feet on the bottom of my laptop is >> >> > >I suppose batteries never run out in your world view. > >
Don't be silly...of course they do. That's why I run klaptop to monitor the status of my battery and give me warnings when it is getting low in the rather frequent event when I forget to plug in the power. My point wasn't that a laptop will run forever on batteries, it was that the battery will last a hell of lot longer than it takes "shutdown -h now" to run. Even if your battery is completely useless otherwise, you almost always have enough time to save your work and shutdown the system. Ok, so one might counter "what if someone isn't monitoring the laptop, and the battery runs out." The same argument could be made about using XFS in a data center environment..."you don't want to do that, because the UPS batteries could die, or the generator could run out of fuel." -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
