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Date:      Sat, 17 Oct 1998 17:16:06 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: softupdates and sync 
Message-ID:  <199810180016.RAA08294@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:56:17 MDT." <199810172156.PAA00691@harmony.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...

You'll have to take that up with Kirk.  I don't know whether deps are 
considered dirty in that fashion; I would have thought they were, yes.

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