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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Powering Down
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 04:00:37 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5qa4v0$e5h$1@flea.best.net>,
dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon) writes:
> For good measure, I do a couple of 'sync' commands before reboot, kinda
> like a mantra: sync, sync, reboot. (p.s. this is actually three sync's
> because reboot also does a sync)... mainly because I have never in my
> life trusted the kernel (any kernel) to wait for the disks to completely
> finish the flush before the system hard-resets the box.
And you expect sync to do anything ? All that does is
"schedule" any outstanding writes. Nothing's guaranteed.
> -Matt
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !