Date: 16 Jun 1999 14:40:03 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: / not properly unmounted ? Message-ID: <xzphfo8co9o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Stefan `Sec` Zehl's message of "Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:29:38 %2B0200" References: <19990616033308.A16652@matrix.42.org> <xzplndkcoz7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990616142937.A24601@matrix.42.org>
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Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org> writes: > On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 02:24:44PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Either don't use 'halt -p', or disable write caching on your disk > > drives - or hack the kernel to pause for five seconds or something > > before switching off the power. > So you mean "halt -p" is supposed to not unmount things cleanly ? It *is* supposed to unmount things cleanly, and it does. But your disk is lying about write operations having completed when in fact they're sitting in the disk's cache. Then the APM BIOS powers the machine off before the disk has had time to flush its cache. > If so, what is the sanctioned way of halt&powerdown a box, or for that > matter why didn't it happen with earlier make world's ? Because 'halt -p' didn't use to work at all? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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