On Sunday, 26 January 2003 at 14:24:02 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 08:08, David Schultz wrote: >> Good. I was referring to IDE in this case, because I assume >> that's what Greg's laptop uses. The ATA driver flushes the cache >> when the device is closed, but I don't think that happens during >> shutdown. It probably needs to register a shutdown hook like the >> SCSI driver. Also, the driver is a bit optimistic about how long >> the flush will take; it times out after 5 seconds, whereas the ATA >> spec says a flush can take up to 30 seconds. > > I am wondering if I experienced this problem with my -stable laptop.. > > I shut it down and then booted it up later to find fsck having a nice > good chew on the drive (deleting REAMS of files).
Did you use shutdown -p? If my hypothesis is correct, it's possible to get this result with shutdown -h if you press the power switch as soon as the "System halted" message appears, but normally you'd give it a few seconds longer. With shutdown -p, it's immediate, modulo delay. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
