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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Mar 27, 2009 1:38 UTC (Fri) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)In reply to: Quotes of the week by nix Parent article: Quotes of the week
Ritual triple sync? I recall that the manuals for my first Unixes, way back when, used to recommend stuff like:
# sync;sync;sync;haltsys
For reasons that were never explained. Is there some interesting story behind this that I missed?
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Quotes of the week Posted Mar 27, 2009 3:53 UTC (Fri) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678) [Link]
Tom explained it in the article text...
Triple sync Posted Apr 11, 2009 8:22 UTC (Sat) by Brenner (subscriber, #28232) [Link]
Here is an old (1991) thread about the triple sync:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.computers/bro...
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