From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 21 21:16:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC4C37B401 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mobile.webweaving.org (67-115-22-5.ded.pacbell.net [67.115.22.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7FF43E31 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:16:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dirkx@covalent.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.webweaving.org (8.12.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g6M1dM0j000371; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 18:39:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Curiosity: Killed the Cat X-Huis-aan-Huis-deur-sticker: nee-nee X-Spam: no X-Passed: MX on Gandalf.WebWeaving.org Sun, 21 Jul 2002 18:39:22 -0700 (PDT) and masked X-No-Spam: Neither the receipients nor the senders email address(s) are to be used for Unsolicited (Commercial) Email without the explicit written consent of either party; as a per-message fee is incurred for inbound and outbound traffic to the originator. Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 18:39:22 -0700 (PDT) From: dirkx@covalent.net X-X-Sender: dirkx@mobile.webweaving.org To: krentel@dreamscape.com Cc: peter@wemm.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump on mounted fs In-Reply-To: <200207190139.g6J1da517312@dreamscape.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Mark W. Krentel wrote: > > Dump on a live FS is always risky. FreeBSD in 4.x and earlier will have > > up to about a 30 second delay before a write() makes it to physical disk. Is this regardless of the sync(8) command used ? And if so - what does sync(8) actually sync - and which things are taking longer to sync ? Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message