Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:23:33 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sync(8) doesn't have any effect on softupdates-enabled filesystem Message-ID: <4301.935346213@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:58:10 PDT." <199908221758.KAA80382@apollo.backplane.com>
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In message <199908221758.KAA80382@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: >:> structures used internally by softupdates are not condusive to doing a >:> hard-sync. >: >:I gues sync needs to set a flag which makes the sync'er go through all >:buckets with no delay and then wake the sync'ing process afterwards... >: >:-- >:Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > > It won't help. What needs to happen is for the VOP_FSYNC in ffs to > figure out buffer<->buffer dependancies But the buffer to buffer dependencies are already recorded in the sequence on the "sync-wheel" which the syncer daemon runs through, isn't it ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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