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To: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
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Subject: Re: mount -o sync question 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 01:56:54 -0700
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>The default mode of ufs filesystems is 'sync'? 

   No, "sync" means something a bit different; it tells the system that you
want file data blocks written synchronously which is not the default.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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