systemd questions

Miloslav Trmač mitr at volny.cz
Sun May 15 17:28:50 UTC 2011


On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> Well, adding 30s-sleep()s here and there and everywhere is a hack, not a
> clean fix. But if you have a lot of sync to disk, and/or a slow disk,
> then 30s might not be enough and you are fucked.
I can't see where would that "a lot of sync to disk" come from: the
filesystems are synced, RAID has been marked clean. What else needs to
be written back?

> "We always did it this way" is not a fix for a problem. The race is
> real, and should be fixed properly.
Sure, when/if somebody feels this is important enough to rewrite all
of the UPS drivers.  In the mean time, future Fedoras should work at
least as well as F14 does.
   Mirek


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