From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 3 08:32:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9D1B16A41F for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:32:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: from bizet.nethelp.no (bizet.nethelp.no [195.1.209.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8210443D46 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:32:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 40322 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Aug 2005 08:32:25 -0000 To: jeremie@le-hen.org From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:29:39 +0200" References: <20050803082939.GE45385@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:32:25 +0200 Message-ID: <40320.1123057945@bizet.nethelp.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hot-swap SATA and atacontrol X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:32:32 -0000 > More seriously, I don't see the point in using sync(8) three times > consecutively, except that's an indirect method to wait for the disk > buffers to be flushed before powering down. Please, correct me if I'm > wrong. Also, with softupdates you are *not* necessarily certain that all buffers have been flushed after three sync's. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no