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From: "Renato S. Yamane" <renatoyamane@mandic.com.br>
Subject: Re: Warnings on shutdown (Debian Etch and Kernel 2.6.22.9)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:31:40 -0200
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To: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, "Renato S. Yamane" <renatoyamane@mandic.com.br>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, miquels@cistron.nl

Jim Paris escreveu:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Ehh... I meant something along the line of...
>>
>> "Info for Debian VERSION users : if you see this warning there are
>> several solutions... blah blah".
>=20
> For Debian, I don't think there are any complete solutions yet.
> The related bug is=20
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D426224

I think that we can fix this if someone can answer this:

$ man halt
"-h flag: This is important for IDE drives, since the kernel doesn=92t=20
flush the write cache itself before power-off.."

How can I know if kernel write cache itself? :-)

Regards,
Renato