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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 1995 12:02:45 -0700
From:      nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams)
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams), CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_vfsops.c 
Message-ID:  <199503181902.MAA16612@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199503181843.KAA00318@corbin.Root.COM>
References:  <199503181833.LAA16445@trout.sri.MT.net> <199503181843.KAA00318@corbin.Root.COM>

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David Greenman writes:
> >>   Modified:    sys/ufs/ffs ffs_vfsops.c
> >>   Log:
> >>   Don't sync the inode date changes of character special devices
> >>   during the FS sync. The system would appear to hang momentarily
> >>   if there was a large backlog of I/O.
> >
> >Is this what you hope is causing the 'pauses' in the system?
> 
>    Hope? After hours of debugging, I *know* that it is a cause. I don't
> guarantee that it is the only cause, however.

I meant, do you hope it's the only cause.  Sorry if I wasn't explicit
enough.


Nate



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