John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Scot Hetzel wrote this message on Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:44 -0500: >> On 8/2/05, Justin Finkelstein <justin_at_redwiredesign.com> wrote: >>> I might be being a little dense, but what do you mean by sync? >> >> before you unmount the drive, type: > > just as a little hint since sync returns before everything is written > out, you can do fsync <diskdev> and it will then force out any > unwritten data for disk dev... (and not return till done).. Wouldn't it be nice if "sync" blocked until the disk I/O buffers were flushed? -- -ChuckReceived on Tue Aug 02 2005 - 15:11:48 UTC
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