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>onsidering the fact that the Amiga operating system does not handle
file corruption very well, what would happen if during a swap a power
fail occurred?  Or the machine was turned off?
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It is not the OS's fault, it is localized to the FileSystem. OFS and FFS
don't deal well with powerdowns/crashes while they are trying to clean
up. Solution: FIX the FileSystem. RDB now allows us to put WHATEVER
FS we want on an autobooting drive, right? Heck, we could give ourselves
(shudder) an autobooting MSDOS-formatted drive! Whaddaconcept. Then
we'd have to worry about losing our FAT. (Like Roseanne!)


>Doesn't this also bring up the question about a 'shutdown' command
again?
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 Sure. What's wrong with a shutdown command? I think it is very rude to
your OS to 'pull-the-rug-out-from-under-it' and expect it to cope with
things correctly. UNI* boxes have a shutdown, and I think the MacII series
took a step in the right direction by having the ShutDown menu item.
Of course, this leads to (on the Mac or Amiga at least) the concept of a
virus that turns your computer off again as soon as you turn it on! ;)


Chris - Xenon

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