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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject: Re: softupdates and sync 
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:56:17 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199810170729.AAA01257@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
: It's "normal", but it shouldn't take minutes; the buckets are meant to 
: cycle around every 30 seconds or so.

I guess I'm not making myself clear.  Why doesn't sync(1) flush these
things to disk?  That's what it is supposed to do, no?  Flush the
dirty buffers to disk?  It shouldn't take an unmount to do that...

Warner

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