Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:29:06 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch] sys_sync livelock fix |
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Given that /bin/sync calls write_unlocked_buffers() three times, > > that's good enough. sync still takes aaaaaages, but it terminates. > > Whats wrong with sync not terminating when there is permenantly I/O > left ?
I've seen it get stuck for half an hour. This was not during a test, but on a real server which was in a busy period...
> Its seems preferably to suprise data loss
The data isn't lost, it'll simply get written out to disk later.
cheers,
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