Re: Defect in XBD 3.386_System_Reboot

[Larry Dwyer <yyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxx>]

At 09:53 AM 8/8/2003, SHwareSyst@xxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated
> 2003-08-07 7:08:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Larry.Dwyer@xxxxxx
> writes:
>
> > I'm unclear.  What part of
> > this sequence is portable?
> >
> >                
> > Cheers,
> >                
> > Larry 
>
>
> The logical model of on power up the implementaion does go through
> discernable boot time phases... RAM detection, low-level peripheral
> detection and initialization, executing low level supervisory processes
> from ROM, mounting filesystems, associating generic drivers with specific
> hardware, creating a primary user process, login, etc.
>
> Cheers again,
> Mark

Not on a Highly Available (HA) system.  They neither shutdown nor reboot.  No portable application can be written to deal with system transitions (such as memory replacement, CPU replacement, disk replacement, interface card replacement ...

Should the POSIX standard mandate that HA systems must reboot?

                Cheers,
                Larry