On Wed, 2005-Aug-03 10:29:39 +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: >More seriously, I don't see the point in using sync(8) three times >consecutively, except that's an indirect method to wait for the disk >buffers to be flushed before powering down. Please, correct me if I'm >wrong. The response I've seen on the PUPS or TUHS mailing list when this was asked is (roughly): The time taken to type sync<cr> three times on a KSR33 is a good match for the time it takes a PDP-11 to flush its buffers to a RK05. There is absolutely no point in typing sync before unmounting filesystems or halting any modern Unix - they all flush their buffers as part of the unmount or halt processing. (And the invention of of FS_UNCLEAN means that mount and fsck know whether the filesystem was unmounted cleanly or not). -- Peter JeremyReceived on Wed Aug 03 2005 - 09:16:30 UTC
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