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Re:I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with... by jedberg on Monday August 10, 2020 @04:51PM (#24113836)
There are lots of ways to get a very close experience to a power pull, but nothing you can do from within the VM is quite the same as doing it outside the VM.
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Re:I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with... by recuter on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:08PM (#24114020)
I believe you but I'm curios as to the subtle difference.

To my mind simply turning off the networking, physically cutting a cable, or hardware spontaneously combusting are not discernible events to an outside observer. What am I missing?

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Re:I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with... by thejj100100 on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:22PM (#24114147)
Tasks that are writing to disk, network outage wouldn't stop the task?
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Re:I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with... by recuter on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:30PM (#24114219)
If the disk is network attached it would, and if it isn't, what difference does it make?
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Re:I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with... by hackmiester on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:36PM (#24114280)
Well, we would know that if we could try it.
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Re:I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with... by Hello71 on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:44PM (#24115570)
on a fully virtualized system, echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger is going to be as close to a forced shutdown as you can get. that won't test hardware/firmware issues, but neither will a VM stop anyways.
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