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SubjectRe: [patch] sys_sync livelock fix
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,

Rik
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