From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 7 22:53:38 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles551.castles.com [208.214.165.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B5D154D2; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 22:53:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA01591; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 22:55:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912080655.WAA01591@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Nick Hibma , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:27:13 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:55:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > > 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) -- \\ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message