On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:03:52PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: > FreeBSD's ``fix'' for this problem is the same as Windows 98's. > Specifically, there is a 5-second delay (tuneable: > kern.shutdown.poweroff_delay) after all buffers are flushed but > before the power is cut. Maybe we ought to be sending FLUSH > CACHE commands to all drives and waiting for them to finish.
I've heard is longer then 5sec on more recent systems like 2000 or XP. I even heard one claim that some shops were using 30sec internally. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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