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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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