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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:32:46 -0700
From:      Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   why sync during shutdown when sync already done?
Message-ID:  <50A4544E.7030805@dreamchaser.org>

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It's my understanding that the sequence of numbers one sees output when
shutdown is issued reflect writes of cached items.
Is that correct?

If so, why does:
  sync
  shutdown -r now
still show cached items being written?




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