From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 3 19:47:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCC016A41F for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 19:47:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from postoffice.vicor-nb.com (postoffice.vicor.com [69.26.56.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5D543D46 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 19:47:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postoffice.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 706B14CE975; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postoffice.vicor-nb.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postoffice.vicor-nb.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34069-04; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [208.206.78.97] (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by postoffice.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF7E4CE96C; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42F11F5B.5080708@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:47:39 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050629 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sthaug@nethelp.no References: <20050803082939.GE45385@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <40320.1123057945@bizet.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: <40320.1123057945@bizet.nethelp.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postoffice.vicor.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jeremie@le-hen.org Subject: Re: Hot-swap SATA and atacontrol X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:47:45 -0000 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: >>More seriously, I don't see the point in using sync(8) three times >>consecutively, except that's an indirect method to wait for the disk >>buffers to be flushed before powering down. Please, correct me if I'm >>wrong. >> >> > >Also, with softupdates you are *not* necessarily certain that all buffers >have been flushed after three sync's. > > Kirk did say a long time ago that he thought 5 syncs might be enough but I haven't heard him say that for a long time so he may have changed his mind :-) >Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >