PATCH: Forcible delaying of UFS (soft)updates

[Marko Zec]

Michael Collette wrote:

> Real world laptop scenario.  I just finish downloading my E-Mail.  I then take
> and put this machine into a suspend mode.  Upon awakening the system glitches
> for some reason forcing an unexpected system shutdown.
>
> (Note: I am having this problem now with a Thinkpad T23)
>
> Did my mail get written to the drive prior to suspending?

It should get synched, since the APM daemon by default calls a global sync (not
fsync!) a couple of times before suspending, to ensure FS consistency in case the
system never resumes successfully.

Marko