On Wed, 18 May 2011, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > When looking at bug #577146, the thought comes to mind; is halt the > correct action to do in case of power failure?
You will be without power soon, but you have no idea how soon. And you don't have any idea for how long. Yes, halt (with poweroff) is about the only thing you can do that is even remotely safe. Fastpath shutdown would be safer, but we don't have it. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
