System V kernel panic not syncing

neal at mnopltd.UUCP neal at mnopltd.UUCP
Wed Mar 14 01:03:53 AEST 1990


->Anyone know how to get the SCO UNIX System V/386 r3.2 kernel
->to do sync when it panics so fsck is happy when you start up again?
->
->I'm told that BSD can do this, and I have a use for this while
->running this OS on a 'beta' CPU which will cause a panic under
->certain circumstances.

Wait a second... This doesn't make sense.  Panics are frequently situations
where the kernel code is not confident to continue processing.  Doing a 
sync in this situation is like painting over rust.   For any degree of system 
stability you need to fsck and "take your medecine"...

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