> I just had an experience on Solaris that I found nothing but sheer
> amazing;
[...story: external drive lost power, system stayed up...]

> Now that's some kind of graceful recovery from error situations that
> I haven't seen yet on workstation-style systems.  It would be
> extremely nice if some behaviour like this could be implemented on
> NetBSD aswell.

Interesting how different people (or should I say "environments"?) are.
Just about the last thing I want is for the system to hide hardware
failures.  If your disk had died permanently, you might well have had
no idea anything was wrong until a week later, and thus lost a week of
writes for lack of anywhere to flush them to.

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