dangerous situation with shutdown process

[Jayton Garnett]

Oliver Fromme wrote:

>Definitely not.  When I compare Windows XP and FreeBSD on
>the same hardware (notebook with ATA disk), then Windows'
>shutdown process is a lot faster than FreeBSD's.  In fact,
>when I shut it down under XP for the first time, the power
>was off so quickly that I thought someting must have gone
>wrong.  But everything was OK and normal.
>
>  
>
Yes XP's shutdown time is quicker on a fresh install, but give it a few 
weeks or months (depending on how you use XP)
and you will notice that the shutdown time increases. Right now my XP 
pro takes about 20 or more seconds to shutdown.
I am sure this is due to the MFT under a NTFS installation, FreeBSD does 
not appear to have this problem over extended
use, and there is no way of stopping the MTF growth problem (as far as I 
know)

>It is already irritating that FreeBSD sits there doing
>nothing for ~ 5 seconds before turning power off.  Windows
>doesn't do that.  (Yes I know, there's a sysctl for that,
>but I suspect that it's not save to modify it in FreeBSD.)
>
>Best regards
>   Oliver
>
>  
>


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