Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:55:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@webweaving.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c Message-ID: <199912080655.WAA01591@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:27:13 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912072226550.35786-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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> > > > The disk can lie about whether it has written data to the disk without > > > > > > We are using a shutdown hook (dashutdown) as well as daclose/dadump to > > > issue a SYNCHRONIZE CACHE to the drives. > > > > ... which is not supported by some drives, notably by the USB Zip drive > > and possibly other Zip drives as well. > > Then they shouldn't be root filesystems, no? That's not really a practical way to look at it. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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