[vcf-midatlantic] Museum Report 7/16 & 7/17
Brian L. Stuart
blstuart at bellsouth.net
Tue Jul 19 21:14:11 EDT 2016
On Tue, 7/19/16, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> Actually none of us ever HAD to do anymore than zero syncs. A final
> sync() is done before the filesystem is umounted. Doing a sync at all,
> especially more than one, is nothing more than superstition.
Admittedly, it's been over 30 years so my memory may be faulty, but
I seem to remember that in 6th Edition there wasn't a shutdown program
or script that unmounted the root file system. As I recall, the documentation
specified that sync should be run before hitting the halt swtich on the 11.
> I myself use two. =)
Me too
BLS
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