Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 00:50:09 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org, mango@staff.communique.net Subject: Re: kernel optimization and PCI ... Message-ID: <199611171350.AAA19075@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>It does? Where? ffs_statfs seems to just copy some data. df does a >>full sync for non-mounted file systems. > >Huh, sync of non-mounted file systems ? How could you possibly do that... Using sync(2) :-). It syncs everything (at least if you wait for an indeterminate time after it returns :-(). The sync is to get the superblock for the file system written out in case it is mounted via an alias or being written without being mounted. Bruce
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