Subject: Re: [2.0-RC1] shutdown is not clean
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Gerhards <HM-Gerhards@uni.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/07/2004 21:58:16
Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Try "dkctl wd0 setcache r" before shutting down.
> 
> This turns off the disk write cache, just on the off chance that
> somehow power is being removed before the last writes have actually
> been completed.

I tried this and it worked! The next startup all filesystems were
described as "file system is clean, not checking".

So what might go wrong on "normal" shutdowns?

Michael