On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:54:28 +0200, Chris Murphy wrote:
and likely experiences data loss and possibly even file system
corruption as a direct consequence of having to force power off on the
machine because for all practical purposes normal control has been
lost.
Not really, this is what journaling filesystem is there for.
But then there still can be an application-level data corruptions if an
application does not handle its sudden termination properly.
Which should be rare but IIRC I did see it for example with Firefox.
Jan