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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--Apple-Mail-17--393886693 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed 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. --Apple-Mail-17--393886693--
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