Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 00:54:11 -0700 From: Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: bollocks@bollocks.net.nz Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS has quality programmers and OS design? Stop smoking crack! Message-ID: <3B496323.B9F8996F@pitt.edu> References: <3B49094B.C8506331@outpost.co.nz>
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Craig Harding wrote:
>
..
> > This update introduces a slight delay in the shutdown process.
> > The delay of two seconds allows the hard drive's onboard cache
> > to write any data to the hard drive.
>
> Gee, so they wait 2 seconds, and then reboot. That's clever. "sync sync
> sync" anyone? Is FreeBSD's IDE driver a little more intelligent?
>
We don't detach the drivers when shutting down do we?? Independently of
the fact that IDE drives suck, someone should check out if we turn off
the cache (when this is possible) as part of the shutdown procedure.
In FreeBSD this problem is not so serious though, since rebooting is not
a ritual as in Windows :).
Pedro.
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