From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 20 08:30:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26152 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA26143 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:30:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA04387; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:29:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199810201529.IAA04387@austin.polstra.com> To: rhuff@cybercom.net Subject: Re: softupdates and sync In-Reply-To: <199810201410.KAA23761@shell1.cybercom.net> References: <199810201410.KAA23761@shell1.cybercom.net> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:29:53 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199810201410.KAA23761@shell1.cybercom.net>, Robert Huff wrote: > So, short of umount, is there a program (or system call that > can be turned into a program) that will cause the filesystem to > _immediately_ flush unwritten buffers? For individual files, there is fsync(). John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message