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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Dump / soft updates interaction?
To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>,
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In-Reply-To: Brian T.Schellenberger's message of Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:38:48 -0400
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> Yes.  You need to wait for the system to "settle down" before dumping.

Is there any way to wait until a soft-update filesystem is up-to-date -
something like sync (which doesn't wait for soft updates to complete).

Of course you can unmount and remount, but that's not always possible.

-- Richard

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