From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 17 17:12:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10748 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 17:12:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles113.castles.com [208.214.165.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10742 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 17:12:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08294; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 17:16:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810180016.RAA08294@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and sync In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:56:17 MDT." <199810172156.PAA00691@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 17:16:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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