Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:10:32PM -0600, James Chacon wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:39:20AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>>
>>>On Jan 26, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I could interpret this as running "sync" would put the system in a 
>>>>state where I could also suspend it, but obviously that's not the case 
>>>>any longer, with softdep,  and whatever else.
>>>
>>>Just running sync is never enough, because the other applications could 
>>>still be writing like gangbusters.
>>
>>That wasn't the point. What if I have a stable non-busy system? sync(8)
>>lies currently and doesn't force all data out to the disk...
> 
> 
> It always lied, thus "sync, sync, halt".

Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. :(