On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:10:32PM -0600, James Chacon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:39:20AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > 
> > On Jan 26, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > 
> > >I could interpret this as running "sync" would put the system in a 
> > >state where I could also suspend it, but obviously that's not the case 
> > >any longer, with softdep,  and whatever else.
> > 
> > Just running sync is never enough, because the other applications could 
> > still be writing like gangbusters.
> 
> That wasn't the point. What if I have a stable non-busy system? sync(8)
> lies currently and doesn't force all data out to the disk...

It always lied, thus "sync, sync, halt".

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com

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