Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:59:54 -0800 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Does Linux sync(2) wait? |
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 04:30:53PM +0100, Pascal Schmidt wrote:
> No idea about NFS, but sync(1) does wait. When I push 500M out to my > MO drive, the cp operation returns fairly quickly because I usually > have more than 500M free memory. Then I run sync(1), which takes > about 20 minutes before it returns.
20 minutes?!
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