From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 9 12:41:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3820937B401 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 12:41:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop018.verizon.net (pop018pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0C243FBF for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 12:41:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.42.236]) by pop018.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030309204126.SQGG6884.pop018.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 14:41:26 -0600 Message-ID: <3E6BA6F0.2070004@mac.com> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 15:41:20 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "leak" in softupdates? References: <20030305204526.T38115@hub.org> <20030307090033.GA61037@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20030307090033.GA61037@HAL9000.homeunix.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop018.verizon.net from [129.44.42.236] at Sun, 9 Mar 2003 14:41:26 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Schultz wrote: [ ... ] > You can guarantee that everything is flushed to disk (if even for > a brief moment) by attempting to unmount the filesystem you want > to sync (without -f). The unmount will fail because the > filesystem is in use, but everything will be written out before it > does. Sounds like "lockfs" (from Solaris) would be useful here. -- -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message