Crash-only software
No, not Windows. Rather, the idea that since serious software has to gracefully recover from abrupt shutdown, you might as well get rid of the orderly shutdown option. Occam's Razor, or OnceAndOnlyOnce says you should just pull the plug and rely on recovering properly.
(via Val Henson.)
posted Wed 28 Jul 2004 in /software/filesystems | link
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