9.1 Proposal: shutdown menu

[Michael Stone]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:15:28PM -0400, pgf at laptop.org wrote:
>michael wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:54:52AM -0400, pgf at laptop.org wrote:
> > >this feature has been discussed on the list(s) earlier, but i'm not
> > >sure of its status.  i'd like to make sure it gets on the table.
> > >(and it just came up in dan's ethiopian report.)
> > >
> > >currently it is much easier to "crash" the laptop (by holding the
> > >power button down) than it is to shut it down cleanly.  while the
> > >journalled filesystem (currently) can recover from this on the
> > >next boot, application writes in progress might not.
> > 
> > (for the record)
> > 
> > I'd be much more interested in proposals for how (socially) to get more
> > activities using ACID storage.
>
>since the first page of google hits is all about where to 
>keep batteries and juvenile diseases, i need to ask you
>for a link.  :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID

Michael