>It sounds as if the default five seconds isn't always enough time for >your disk to do its job. (I've only done poweroff on an idle system so >I haven't run into such a problem myself.) > >I don't see it would hurt anything for this default to be increased to >help out this problem. But what value would be good?
Wouldn't the Right Thing (tm) be to ask the controllers/disk whether or not their caches are clean? Assuming such a thing is even possible. Doc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message