>Henry B. Hotz wrote: >> 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. > >Holy moly! I don't *ever* want to go back to managing services >by "vi /etc/rc.local" ! :-)
Absolutely not., I'm not sure that Solaris 2.1 was even that much less reliable than SunOS 4.x; but I do know that being able to upgrade a full cluster of Suns from my desk from SunOS 4.x to Solaris 2.1 (or 2.2) using jumpstart was what clinched the deal for me :-). And, yes, I do remember going to work before anyone else because I made a syntax error in rc.local and rebooted half the systems :-) (For you youngsters: SunOS 4.x does not come up when you do that) Hm, could have been 3.5 but the same applied to both. Casper
