From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 7: 3: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE9D37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8CC843E65 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:03:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from sakura.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:01:19 -0400 Received: by sakura.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 70322BB2C; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:01:02 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Richard Tobin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Force softupdates to sync? (was: Dump / soft updates interaction?) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:01:02 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <200207151352.OAA24785@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200207151352.OAA24785@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020715140102.70322BB2C@sakura.fake.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message