From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 22 10:38:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD29714F82 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:38:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA04138; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 19:34:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Maxim Sobolev , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sync(8) doesn't have any effect on softupdates-enabled filesystem In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:24:16 PDT." <199908221724.KAA80221@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 19:34:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4136.935343278@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199908221724.KAA80221@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: > > It's a bug, one that I've brought up with Kirk. The problem is that the > structures used internally by softupdates are not condusive to doing a > hard-sync. I gues sync needs to set a flag which makes the sync'er go through all buckets with no delay and then wake the sync'ing process afterwards... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message