Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Finally, note that "terminating with extreme prejudice" any program using >the above kill -9 isn't an operation to be undertaken lightly. Again, it >does /not/ allow the program to terminate in an orderly fashion, and is >generally used to kill a program that's gone off into a never-never land >and won't respond to ordinary polite system requests to close. Thus, >there's always a small risk when doing so that it was in the middle of >something very important, writing another file to disk or whatever. With >PAN, that risk is fairly small, provided you exercise reasonable caution. >However, it remains a small risk. If the program is in the middle of >writing to disk when it's terminated, doing so may result in creating an >inconsistent file system status on your disk, and thereby a file system in >need of an fsck or whatever to set things straight.
No, killing a user process, with -9 or otherwise, cannot cause file system corruption on any Unix/Linux file system - it is the kernel's job to ensure file system integrity, and so the only risk of corruption is when the kernel crashes (or has a bug, or power is lost, etc). It may well cause corruption to file *contents* though, which won't be handled by even a journalled file system, nor noticed or fixed by fsck and friends. --Per Hedeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
