Date: 17 Jun 1999 19:08:07 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), jedgar@fxp.org, sec@42.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: / not properly unmounted ? Message-ID: <xzpu2s6iwlk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Chad R. Larson"'s message of "Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:00:25 -0700 (MST)" References: <199906171700.KAA29113@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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"Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> writes: > As I recall, Mike Smith wrote: > > > The first complaint was that the power-down was catching disk stuff > > > still in cache. Setting an arbitrary delay on the way down seems > > > inefficient at best, and possibly not sufficient. How about instead > > > just making sure all buffers are flushed before the power-down is > > > allowed to to occur, however long that takes? > > You can't do this, because it's the _disk_ that holds the cached data. > Ok, I missed something in the original post? He's using some kind > of caching (or RAID) controller? No, he's using a Plain Old Disk Drive with a quarter-meg or half-meg onboard cache. 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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