[geeks] Solaris resiliency to crashing w/full root partition?

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Wed Sep 28 17:13:06 CDT 2005


On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, velociraptor wrote:

> Anyone have any references to Solaris's resiliency to crashing due to
> a full root partitions?  Googling is not being all that helpful. Even
> Sun marketing foo would be a start.

No, but Solaris will go to hell if /var gets full.  Logins won't
complete.  Maybe 9 and 10 are better, but I had that bite me all the
time under 7 and 8.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke   )  "When we are young, wandering the face of the
Elgin, TX          (    earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth,
USA                 )   learning that we're only immortal--for a limited
                    (    time."                              --Neil Peart



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