Documentation: sysrq: don't recommend 'S' 'U' before 'B'
authorAdam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Tue, 3 Sep 2019 16:08:40 +0000 (18:08 +0200)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fri, 6 Sep 2019 14:42:52 +0000 (08:42 -0600)
commit209c3aa7f0df27feb824c179a763ace3e667c8ba
tree3298487886f6283b1f9691e43d2cea6c1b06f1f9
parentc193a3ffc2824a08ebd82973030bd129e13e4983
Documentation: sysrq: don't recommend 'S' 'U' before 'B'

This advice is obsolete and slightly harmful for filesystems from this
millenium: any modern filesystem can handle unexpected crashes without
requiring fsck -- and on the other hand, trying to write to the disk when
the kernel is in a bad state risks introducing corruption.

For ext2, any unsafe shutdown meant widespread breakage, but it's no longer
a reasonable filesystem for any non-special use.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst