svn commit: r197071 - head/sys/kern

[Nick Hibma]

Author: n_hibma
Date: Thu Sep 10 18:24:59 2009
New Revision: 197071
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197071

Log:
  Add a comment on the consequences of reducing the poweroff delay

Modified:
  head/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c

Modified: head/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c	Thu Sep 10 17:27:36 2009	(r197070)
+++ head/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c	Thu Sep 10 18:24:59 2009	(r197071)
@@ -581,6 +581,10 @@ panic(const char *fmt, ...)
 
 /*
  * Support for poweroff delay.
+ *
+ * Please note that setting this delay too short might power off your machine
+ * before the write cache on your hard disk has been flushed, leading to
+ * soft-updates inconsistencies.
  */
 #ifndef POWEROFF_DELAY
 # define POWEROFF_DELAY 5000