19 Jul
2016
19 Jul
'16
9:47 p.m.
On 07/19/2016 09:10 PM, Bill Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Originally, if I recall correctly, it was:
sync sync sync halt
Yea, later on, all that fancy "shutdown -h" really made the sync's unnecessary.
The syncs were never actually necessary.
Hate to argue with you, but in BSD, "back in the old days" I think "halt" was "right now", no cleanup, no dirty writes, just a little better than yanking the cord out of the wall.
Perhaps I am remembering a shutdown script? But I've always done "sync;sync;halt", and I distinctly remember a buffer flush in the halt program. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA