On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 05:43:25PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > I could be wrong, but my impression from listening to the SCSI, > transaction processing, and log-structured file system people was that > even if you tell the OS to sync, there's no clear way to tell for sure > that the data has been *physically* written to disk. A sudden power > interruption could still cause trouble. But does that really matter here? We don't fear the user will suddenly swith off the machine when autodetecting, we fear that probing some ports/irqs/... will hand the machine. This probably won't effect the final processing of the writes as long as the CPU and bus have done their work. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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