Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 21:40:06 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount -o async on a news servre Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112214006.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701122000.NAA26148@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 12, 1997 13:00:59 -0700 References: <Mutt.19970112200006.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701122000.NAA26148@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Otherwise, everything works as expected. You can eject (or spin down) > > the medium as soon as the umount completes. > The drive light does not go active until updated fires the writes; Then this must be TerryBSD. :-) In FreeBSD, umount(2) triggers the buffer write (as David has explained you from a theoretical point of view, and i tried to prove you from my own experience with my MO drive). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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