Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:57:36 -0400 From: Jim Arnold <jim@ohio.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: spontaneous reboots: how common in general? Message-ID: <a0510030db7849793fb2d@[206.128.102.10]>
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I have been working with FreeBSD now (4.3 Stable and Release) for the past few months on several different boxes. Before that I was running Slackware Linux for about a year and and half. On three of four different occasions I have had my FreeBSD boxes spontaneously reboot. Once it was due to an NFS situation (from what I could guess) and two or three other times it was due to me trying to mount a cdrom that shouldn't be mounted or a cdrom that had a bad file on it that didn't want to be copied to the hard drive. How common, in general, are spontaneous reboots in the FreeBSD world? I never once had my Linux box just give up like FreeBSD seems willing to do. From what I have read softupdates adds a layer of protection again system corruption in these situations. I guess my expectations coming to FreeBSD from Slackware were pretty high so I am somewhat surprised this has happened as often as it has. Other than that, my experience with FreeBSD has been great. It's head and shoulders above Linux in everything else. Can anyone give some insights or perspective on this? Is this FreeBSD glass jaw? How serious or potentially damaging are these kinds of spontaneous reboots and why does FreeBSD seem more prone to these than Linux. Even if I did something stupid I didn't expect FreeBSD to just take its toys, reboot and go home. Just wondering what other's experiences are. Thanks, Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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