----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hilton Travis" <Hilton at QuarkAV dot com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:13 PM


> On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 01:17, Manuel Kasper wrote:
> > EXT dash Mike dot Bradshaw at nokia dot com wrote:
> >
> > No need for that - just pull the plug (or flip the switch).
>
> Even on HDD versions?  I know the difference between the HDD and CF
> version is rather minimal, but all other OSes tend to b0rk eventually if
> their filing system is not shut down cleanly.  Not having played with
> BSD before, I guessed that it was the same.
>
The file system is mounted read only.  You can power off anytime you like.

Logs are written into a circular file on a ram disk.  Really, you can power
off anytime.

Really!  :-)