Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:01:02 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Force softupdates to sync? (was: Dump / soft updates interaction?) Message-ID: <20020715140102.70322BB2C@sakura.fake.com> In-Reply-To: <200207151352.OAA24785@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> References: <200207151352.OAA24785@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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On Monday 15 July 2002 09:52 am, Richard Tobin wrote:
| > 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.
As far as I know, there is not, but this is something I've wanted for a while.
Better yet, I'd like a command to synchronously force a full sync of the
softupdates information.
Is there such a thing?
Would it be conceivable to devise such a thing?
Anybody have more insight than me?
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