Subject: Re: [2.0-RC1] shutdown is not clean
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/07/2004 05:36:27
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:31:02PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:54:14AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> > Try "dkctl wd0 setcache r" before shutting down.
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> This shouldn't be needed, the kernel issue a flush cache command to disks
> once the filesystems have been unmounted.

I heartily agree that it shouldn't, but if it makes a difference
anyway we've learned something about the problem.

--
Dan.

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