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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <199611162252.JAA30586@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
>>Doing a df forces all metadate to be written, that takes time.  Watch
>>with systat(1) and you can see it happen.
>
>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...

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