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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:43:37 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        chad@DCFinc.com
Cc:        jedgar@fxp.org (Chris D. Faulhaber), mike@smith.net.au, sec@42.org, des@flood.ping.uio.no, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: / not properly unmounted ? 
Message-ID:  <199906171643.JAA00939@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:37:58 PDT." <199906171637.JAA29029@freeway.dcfinc.com> 

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> Guys, this seems like the wrong solution to the original problem.
> 
> The first complaint was that the power-down was catching disk stuff
> still in cache.  Setting an arbitrary delay on the way down seems
> inefficient at best, and possibly not sufficient.  How about instead
> just making sure all buffers are flushed before the power-down is
> allowed to to occur, however long that takes?

You can't do this, because it's the _disk_ that holds the cached data.

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