pCP was only a player at the start ... and when used that way, everything is loaded into memory when it starts up and it does not write back to storage unless you do something that initiates a backup. So - for that sort of setup it is OK to pull the plug out without doing a "power off"/shutdown.
Once LMS came into it then things changed. If you run LMS on your pCPmachine then LMS requires things to persist without having to run a backup - and it could have so much data that it would not all fit in memory anyway. So pulling out the power could cause a problem if LMS happened to be writing at the time .... and it could result in a corrupted file system. Pressing the power button in JiveLite does little more than turn off the screen and telling LMS that this player is "off". Using the "shutdown" menu item in JiveLite pCP extras or the pCP web interface is the safe way to do things unless you have some extra tricks like short term battery backup that will issue an orderly shutdown. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111491 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
