[ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.

[Geoffrey]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 17:05 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
>> Why?  Did shutdown not flush all buffers and umount the file system?
>> Maybe we were just being paranoid?
>>
> http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSync

I disagree with this document, at least as early as SVR3 is concerned.

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