Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:44:29 -0500 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: Does Linux sync(2) wait? |
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Chris Wedgwood wrote: > 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?!
He did say it was a magneto-optical drive.
Chris
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