Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:55:30 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: "D. Rock" <rock@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dirty fs after apm power off Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901231354430.21631-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199901232144.WAA10840@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>
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probably the drive needs write-caching turned off... On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, D. Rock wrote: > I have noticed this behaviour on at least one machine. > If I shutdown the machine with apm power off, the filesystem is dirty and > has to been checked on the next reboot. It seems, the power is cut too fast. > I don't have any problems with reboots. > It seems the drive doesn't have the time to write the superblock back to disk. > > I simply put a DELAY(4000000) in the apm_power_off() routine and the problem > fades away. > Any thoughts on doing this a configurable option? It doesn't break anything, > it only takes a few seconds longer for the machine to power off. > > The drive is a Maxtor Diamond Max (90432D2) 4GB IDE drive in an Asus SP98 > board. > > Daniel > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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