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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:16:06 +0100
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: softupdates: any way to force sync?
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:50:27AM -0400, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:
> - Is there any functionality already in the system that I don't know about?

Running sync(9) a speads up the flushing of writes, AFAIK. The
problem where a disk seems to be full because of pending softupdates
changes has been fixed in -current, but I don't think the fix has
been brought into -stable yet.

	David.

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