Version: 2.0.4-1 reopen 358696 ! retitle 358696 Avoiding halt and rebooting blindly is dangerous severity 358696 grave found 2.0.4-1 thanks
The proposed solution endangers data and hardware, thus the grave severity. 1. The UPS may take more than 15 minutes to shutdown the load. You cannot assume things like this, and you will cause data loss if you get it wrong: the power-off could come with the system fully online. 2. Not powering off the box by itself (read: allowing halt and the kernel to do its job and cut power cleanly) means it will be subject to high transients when the UPS shuts down the load. This will, in turn, make it worse for the other loads that have not been properly shut down. It would be a disaster in a server farm. 3. Non-controlled shutdowns are *very* bad for all hardware, including desktop systems. For starters, all disks will be subject to emergency head unloads. The halt utility does a lot of work-around on kenrel bugs to make sure disks are parked, RAID arrays are in read-only mode or shutdown, etc for a damn good reason. 4. It is very probable that in any non-home scenarios, an UPS will protect more than one equipment. In those scenarios, the UPS is configured to NOT accept "immediate shutdown the load" command from any of the equipments, just from the main controller host. Nut is geared to work fine and specifically support such configurations. This has to be taken into account. Thus, implementing the work around proposed in this bug report as a default behaviour is not acceptable. Please revert the change, or make it optional, and *not* enabled by default. I would go even further and actively discourage heavily the use of this option, as it can damage the hardware. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
