Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:00:25 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: jedgar@fxp.org, mike@smith.net.au, sec@42.org, des@flood.ping.uio.no, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: / not properly unmounted ? Message-ID: <199906171700.KAA29113@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199906171643.JAA00939@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jun 17, 99 09:43:37 am"
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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? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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