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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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