Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:57:11 +0200 | From | Harald Koenig <> | Subject | Re: strange sync behaviour |
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On Aug 16, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > > > > Try this on an unloaded system: > > > > sync > > find / -name something > > sync > > > > ok, now all directories are cached and no buffers have to be written to > > the disk. Type again: > > > > find / -name something > > sync > > > > Why the sync command make my HDs to work for 2-3 seconds ? find > > shouldn't write anything on the disk, so what has it to update ?? > > > > Bye. > > > > The `atime` of every file accessed is written to the disk! > Look at "struct stat".
only `atime' of directories, not of every file. you don't `access' files with find ...
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