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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Robert Wuest wrote:
> Larry McVoy wrote:
> >
> > Do you think it would be possible to build a safe, slow file system?
> > By safe, I mean that I could hit reset in the middle of 50 parallel
> > un-tars and reboot the system and the file system comes up clean (no fsck,
> > but data loss)?
>
> I also have a need for this. Well, maybe not this extreme. I would like
> to put Linux on the plant floor in a manufacturing environment. The
> current solutions use DOS based systems, which are in fact, quite tolerant
> to being turned off at random (not completely, but they're pretty good
> about it).
>
> I have in fact brought Linux up on one machine to prove the concept and
> demonstrate how nice it is to do system maintenance and software upgrades
> without bringing the machine down. Our problem is two fold, power isn't
> terribly reliable and the operators are NOT going to learn to shut down
> the computer before hitting the master power switch on friday afternoon.
>
> So the way it sits now, Linux is not a viable solution.
>
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