Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:58:12 -0800 From: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> To: user <user@dhp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I tell FreeBSD to sync, for real ? Message-ID: <35c231bf0511081458w24119f79g3e32786cb997d4cc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511081707340.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com> References: <4464r2dch1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511081707340.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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On 11/8/05, user <user@dhp.com> wrote: > No, I'm not asking "why do I need to sync" ... I understand why I need to > wait, or issue a sync command. No problems there. > > What I am asking is, why is one issuance of `sync` not enough ? Why is > two not enough ? Why do I need to issue 6 or 8 of them ? Softupdates is why. If you disable softupdates (tunefs -n disable /dev/whatever) you shouldn't have to worry about the sync delay any more. I do wish there was a way to force it to sync to disk on demand, though.
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