From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 11:43:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657A737B405 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tel.fer.hr (zg03-155.dialin.iskon.hr [213.191.135.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B7143F85 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:43:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zec@tel.fer.hr) Received: from tel.fer.hr (marko-tp.katoda.net [192.168.201.109]) by mail.tel.fer.hr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3FIfoxK000666; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:41:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from zec@tel.fer.hr) Message-ID: <3E9C52D5.CFDBE700@tel.fer.hr> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:43:34 +0200 From: Marko Zec X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Collette References: <200304130216.15475.metrol@metrol.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH: Forcible delaying of UFS (soft)updates X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 18:43:42 -0000 Michael Collette wrote: > Real world laptop scenario. I just finish downloading my E-Mail. I then take > and put this machine into a suspend mode. Upon awakening the system glitches > for some reason forcing an unexpected system shutdown. > > (Note: I am having this problem now with a Thinkpad T23) > > Did my mail get written to the drive prior to suspending? It should get synched, since the APM daemon by default calls a global sync (not fsync!) a couple of times before suspending, to ensure FS consistency in case the system never resumes successfully. Marko