Re: Linux community software-update-anarchy polemic

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 01/22/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:51:29 -0500

In <ab356123.0401210428.779aef7e@posting.google.com>, on 01/21/2004
   at 04:28 AM, acoward@mail.ru (Anonymous Coward) said:

>the (again, practical) solution is simply to put a battery in the
>computer and obviate the need for journaling and syncing (at least in
>the case that the disk is local, with the RAM<->disk connection being
>axiomatically reliable).

No, that is not the solution and, no, it is not axiomatically
reliable. Power failures are not the only source of outages, and a
battery will not obviate the need for recovery techniques.

>Ok ok I'm just a monkey,

Then why should anybody trust your advice on technical matters? 

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