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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:06:30 -0500
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem
Message-ID:  <454E30B6-3B7A-464E-8960-D7529623593A@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <B3594EAF-0C9F-4FB6-9076-522406A05761@mac.com>
References:  <20061127164119.E63DB45054@ptavv.es.net> <B3594EAF-0C9F-4FB6-9076-522406A05761@mac.com>

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On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:

>
> The other choice would be to make sync [or the sync(2) system call,  
> more precisely] blocking, so that it does not return until the  
> buffer cache has been flushed and all dirty pages in VM have been  
> written to disk.

I would love a flag to sync(1) that would also make it wait until all  
softupdate pending actions are complete as well and force them to  
happen immediately.
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