On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:56:40AM +0200, wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net wrote:
> > Maybe if you were running that Penguin thingy... 
> > 
> > If a NetBSD system experiences a power failure, it will just spend a
> > bit of extra time fsking the disk as it comes back up, but will
> 
> on SLOW 40MB disk it takes less than minute

I once played with a Shark as an in-car mp3 player.  Booting off a laptop
IDE disk with filesystems mounted RO, I got it from powerup to music playing
in 11 seconds.   I dare say, that's perfectly acceptable.