On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Greg Smith <g...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Florian Weimer wrote: > >> I hope that Mac OS X turns off write caches on low battery. >> >> > > I've never heard of such a thing. The best you can do is try to push the > system into hibernation instead of going down hard. That *should* clear any > disk caches as part of the graceful shutdown. But you're relying on a > relatively fragile system now, once the battery is quite low who knows if > that will even execute in the window of time you have left. > > And at this point it is not unreasonable to expect the user to perform some sort of action. Shutdown before the power completely dies, or plug in the power.
