dangerous situation with shutdown process

[Oliver Fromme]

Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:
 > [...]
 > I believe that the Windows solution to this problem is to put a really,
 > really long delay between when the system is finished syncing and when
 > the power is turned off.

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.

 > This might be the best solution for FreeBSD, as
 > well, but it will irritate people.

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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