On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 03:50:20PM +0200, Alex Shnitman wrote: > Peter Iannarelli writes: > > > You could put a directive in your crontab to issue a sync > > every 5 minutes of every hour of every day. > > That's not quite the issue - Linux syncronizes its buffers whenever it > has a chance anyway. What I'd like to know is whether there is a way > to minimize the damage in the case of a "reset" when the machine was > busy.
hmm.... A few ideas come to mind... 1) Stop it from happening... cut the wires that goto the reset button...replace it with a key switch.... other bits of wiring... 2) mount as much as possible read-only. (/usr /etc ) 3) On a network? NFS mounts don't seem to mind this abuse at all is NFS-root not an option? not too much I can think of other than hacking your kernel... -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
