[Voyage-linux] understanding watchdog reset

[Robert Rawlins - Think Blue]

Hello guys,

 

I use watchdog to keep an eye on a few things in our Voyage/Alix based
system. Tell me, when the watchdog has to reset the system, is this the same
as a power-cut? I'm trying to ascertain if regular watchdog resets are
likely to cause data corruption on the systems RW partition, or is this
un-mounted by the watchdog first?

 

Generally speaking the watchdog only picks up small errors, such as a daemon
having crashed, should I perhaps be using the -soft-boot flag on watchdog
instead? Will this cause a proper reboot power cycle which un-mounts the
partition before restarting?

 

Thanks,

 

Robert

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