Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 22:41:47 -2800 (EDT) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU (JOHN) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Subject: Re: Shutdown MSGS Message-ID: <199607010241.WAA09983@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <01I6IXVR2N0Y8WWJPI@POMONA.EDU> from JOHN at "Jun 30, 96 04:16:41 pm"
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JOHN wrote... > Is this sequence of numbers (the number of blocks that still need to be flushed) > - is this sequence SUPPOSED to countdown - for instance - my machine says > something like syncing disks... 6 6 6 6 6 > then it shuts down. > > John > > Normally, it does. I have seen repeated digits, like this. If your system is happy when it reboots, then there wasn't a problem. Once the buffers have been flushed, the disk is 'synced' which sets the clean flag in the super-block. That doesn't happen until AFTER the cache is flushed. If the clean flag isn't set on boot-up, the boot process runs fsck (and complains) in order to clean up the disk. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key
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