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Subject: Re: Identifying disk activity
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> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:54:32 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
> Subject: Re: Identifying disk activity
>
> > Is there a way to force "synchronous disk activity"?
>
> Turning off soft updates will help, but not make disk writes 
> totally synchronous.

'mount -o sync'  does, however.   <grin>