Re: newbie question Shutdown

From: Lawrence DčOliveiro (ldo_at_geek-central.gen.new_zealand)
Date: 09/14/05 

Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:13:35 +1200

In article <5emgv2-4m1.ln1@penne.houghi>,
 houghi <houghi@houghi.org.invalid> wrote:

>Alvin wrote:
>>
>> On most computers you can simply just
>> push the power button. The system will detect this and perform a proper
>> shutdown. I never use the menu to shutdown.
>
>That is very, very dangerous and could lead to data and/or OS loss.
>I have no problem if you do it that way, just don't advise others to do
>so as well.

Isn't this sort of thing supposed to be mitigated by journalled
filesystems?