Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:56:17 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and sync Message-ID: <199810172156.PAA00691@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:29:06 PDT." <199810170729.AAA01257@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199810170729.AAA01257@dingo.cdrom.com>
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In message <199810170729.AAA01257@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : It's "normal", but it shouldn't take minutes; the buckets are meant to : cycle around every 30 seconds or so. I guess I'm not making myself clear. Why doesn't sync(1) flush these things to disk? That's what it is supposed to do, no? Flush the dirty buffers to disk? It shouldn't take an unmount to do that... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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