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From: "R. J. Bradley" <druid@sto...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] kfs and unknown command plus dossrv
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 10:21:18 +0100

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:47:08PM +0000, James A. Robinson wrote:
> > Is kds realy this sensetive to not being halted properly ?
> 
> If you wish to simply turn off a terminal, with no prep, set up a
> file server.  As with any OS that has active processes in the background,
> if you want to turn if off you need to sync the fs. Having a seperate file
> server means you don't need to worry when just shutting down the terminal.
> 
> Jim

Its not realy a case of wanting to do it, its more a case of accident
and writing a new graphics driver (though Ive just about got the hang
of typing disk/kfscmd halt without seeing what I'm typeing). However
ext2 and (shudder) FAT disk recovery programs seem to manage to pick
up the filesystem in most cases without serious problem.

I was perplexed at finding unknown command strings scattered through files
that had not even been written to and therefor I would have expected not
to suffer from the loss of disk cache?

Just interested as to how much information kfs holds.

Robin