On Mar 19, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Jan Pechanec wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>
>> Powercycling a system during certain parts of boot is almost  
>> guaranteed to cause the next boot to fail with a corrupted registry.

Wow!  I do I even need to say what that implies about SMF?

This entire thread sounds a lot like the old SysV vs BSD debate.  It's  
actually amazing that Sun survived the decision to abandon their  
(working) BSD for (broken/buggy) SysV.  I don't think it was until  
about 2.4 that Solaris began to be a decent alternative.

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