LILO Re: [Gllug] sync,sync, init 0

[William Palfreman]

Ok then, what happens to, say, a new LILO at this point?  Until I learnt
not to do it, I used to do a new LILO, then sync, then reboot, and often
as not the new LILO  wouldn't get written - disappointing when you wanted
to play with your shiny new kernel.  Now I do some mindless disk activity
before rebooting, like du -h /, and LILO gets written.  What it the Right
Thing here?


On 12 Jul 2001, Nix wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Simon Stewart spake:
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:35:24PM +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> >>
> >> I thought init did its own syncing when shutting down !
> >
> > The sysadmin at my university thought otherwise, and there's no
> > mention of sync in the init man page. It might just be a case of
> > "better safe than fscked" though.
>
> Oh, RTFS, for goodness' sake.
>
> sysvinit-2.78 does do its own syncing (see src/halt.c line 237 and
> src/shutdown.c lines 215 and 263).
>
> (However, I still prefer to sync myself in the shutdown scripts; syncing
> repeatedly does no harm and provides insurance should the behaviour of
> sysvinit change in the future.)
>
>


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