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To: David Greenman <davidg@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_vfsops.c
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Reply-To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams)
From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams)
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>   Modified:    sys/ufs/ffs ffs_vfsops.c
>   Log:
>   Don't sync the inode date changes of character special devices
>   during the FS sync. The system would appear to hang momentarily
>   if there was a large backlog of I/O.

Is this what you hope is causing the 'pauses' in the system?