Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:46:38 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912072343430.56769-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <384E0ACA.BBCA08C0@softweyr.com>
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> > No- not quite. We should claim to support sane hardware, but shrug and > > hand the user the bullets if they want to end it all for themselves. > > Some of those oddball drives (like Zip) can be quite beneficial for certain > applications. When you need ~100 MBytes of storage, there aren't many > cheaper ways to get it than a Zip drive. Reliability? Well, it has some. Fine. NO problem! Hey- run off a mechanical cheese grater and a pig attached to a chain driven generator if that works... but please design for reasonable h/w and only with great reluctance allow for popular but broke h/w- and don't design *around* it.... > > > > > (okay, so it's a couple of buffers at shutdown- in any case, perhaps the > > > > driver that sees Synchronize Cache not working should do something else- > > > > maybe calculate the Pareto for the first occurence of a y3k bug) > > > > > > You could just delay for a couple of seconds and guarantee that even if > > > the Synchronise Cache command didn't work, the drive will still have > > > flushed it's cache. Oops, looks like that's what I committed the other > > > day. > > > > You're toying with me, aren't you? > > Yes, Mike enjoys that sort of sport. ;^) Aw, so do you. I must have my NetBSD hat on tonight with all my stiff "it must be right, damn it!" responses... well today *was* a NASA/Ames day... -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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