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From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net>
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>It sounds as if the default five seconds isn't always enough time for
>your disk to do its job.  (I've only done poweroff on an idle system so
>I haven't run into such a problem myself.)
>
>I don't see it would hurt anything for this default to be increased to
>help out this problem.  But what value would be good?

Wouldn't the Right Thing (tm) be to ask the controllers/disk whether or not 
their caches are clean? Assuming such a thing is even possible.

         Doc


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