On Monday, 04/05/2004 at 07:27 CST, "Ferguson, Neale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shutdown combined with the signal service will result in an orderly shutdown > with no need for fsck at boot. Force just gets rid of the virtual machine > without it being able to cleanly exit this life. > > -----Original Message----- > What's the difference between the force command and cp signal shutdown? > We've been using the force, since that's the command that I found first. > Should we change our procedures?
Clarification: A guest that supports CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN handler can be FORCEd safely. CP will delay the FORCE (by the configured time interval) while the virtual machine performs needed processing. FORCE IMMEDIATE is available as the EPO. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
