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On Mon, 2 May 2005, Steven Hartland wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote::Surely thats what the buffer sync is doing. Watching the console both these actions appear to be doing identical things but the end results are quite different :( buffers are always under 5 usually 2 and its not like there's been a great deal of activity. The last test I did was just a boot, login, shutdown ( result was / not clean but all the others ok ).
Modern IDE drives sometimes lie about having finished writing out the data, when in fact it's still only in cache. You should be able to disable this behaviour to test (try the BIOS).
I have a "HDD Post Write Buffer" in the BIOS according to the MB manual
although the disks aren't connected to the MB controllers they are on RAID 5 set off a PCI-X card. Will give it a go tomorrow ( drag the monitor
back to the rack ). Will this have any performance penalties? I could
just avoid using shutdown -p but it seems a bit dodgy what its doing.
If this machine where miles away without remote console it would have
caused major amounts of pain.
Steve
Why would you use shutdown -p on a remote machine anyway. I could see possibly a shutdown -r but -p come on.
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