Re: [Discuss] systemd reboot

2018-03-04 Thread Joe Polcari
Thanks for the sync update! Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 4, 2018, at 9:20 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: > > The old "sync;sync;sync;halt" mantra is folklore from the days before we > had a shutdown/reboot command which does this for us. The first sync > flushes any dirty

Re: [Discuss] systemd reboot

2018-03-04 Thread Richard Pieri
The old "sync;sync;sync;halt" mantra is folklore from the days before we had a shutdown/reboot command which does this for us. The first sync flushes any dirty buffers, the second blocks waiting for the first to complete ensuring that there are no dirty buffers when the system goes down, and the