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"S=F8ren Schmidt" wrote:
> The proper thing is to flush the cache's on shutdown, the way it is now=

> all ATA disks are flushed on device close, problem is we newer close
> the / device, which I found out some time after I did the flush code,
> bit newer got around to fixing..

It's been my experience that some disks lie, and return without
the cache actually having been flushed.  8-(.

-- Terry

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