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On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:

> > >     The disk can lie about whether it has written data to the disk without
> > 
> > We are using a shutdown hook (dashutdown) as well as daclose/dadump to
> > issue a SYNCHRONIZE CACHE to the drives.
> 
> ... which is not supported by some drives, notably by the USB Zip drive
> and possibly other Zip drives as well.

Then they shouldn't be root filesystems, no?




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