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Date:      Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:55:37 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Nick Hibma <n_hibma@webweaving.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c 
Message-ID:  <199912080655.WAA01591@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:27:13 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912072226550.35786-100000@beppo.feral.com> 

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> > > > 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?

That's not really a practical way to look at it.  8)

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\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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