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To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_vfsops.c 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 10:43:34 -0800
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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?

   Hope? After hours of debugging, I *know* that it is a cause. I don't
guarantee that it is the only cause, however.

-DG