Subject: Re: [2.0-RC1] shutdown is not clean
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/06/2004 21:31:02
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:54:14AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> Try "dkctl wd0 setcache r" before shutting down.
> 
> This turns off the disk write cache, just on the off chance that
> somehow power is being removed before the last writes have actually
> been completed.

This shouldn't be needed, the kernel issue a flush cache command to disks
once the filesystems have been unmounted.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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