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Date:      Sun, 21 Jul 2002 18:39:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      dirkx@covalent.net
To:        krentel@dreamscape.com
Cc:        peter@wemm.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dump on mounted fs 
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSX.4.44.0207211838370.315-100000@mobile.webweaving.org>
In-Reply-To: <200207190139.g6J1da517312@dreamscape.com>

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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


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