When do files syncronize?

[Dave Tweten]

metrol at metrol.net said:
>Is there some way to force outstanding writes to clear their buffers
>before I  put this box into sleep mode? 

You don't really want sleep mode, you want hibernation.

I don'think either sleep or hibernation flushes buffers.  Sleep just 
reduces, but does not eliminate power consumption.  Hibernation tells the 
OS it's going to sleep, then copies the state of the processor and memory 
to disk, and finally turns off the power.  When you next power up, the 
BIOS restores processor and memory state and tells the OS to wake up.

To use hibernation, you'll have to get hold of the stand-alone program 
from IBM that creates a hibernation slice for you.  That slice will be 
slightly larger than the amount of memory you have installed in your 
machine.  If you're planning for the possibility of a memory upgrade 
eventually, it allows you to specify a larger amount of space to use.  I 
got my copy at

	http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4PESMK.html

It has worked beautifully on both a ThinkPad X21 and on a few T23s.  
Unfortunately, Win2k insists upon using its own hibernation file, rather 
than using a hibernation partition (oops, slice) if one is available.  
That wastes space on dual-boot machines.  Fortunately, T23s have a lot of 
disk space to waste.

You really want to hibernate -- not sleep.  Good luck!
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