Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 May 1999 17:41:04 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: All the problems with 2.2.8/2.3.x and bdflush/update |
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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>Boot with init=/bin/sh to do manual filesystem repairs, reboot immediately >afterward, discover that NONE of the writes hit the disk, and then tell me >this is a feature.
update _can't_ save you from losing data if you will reboot fast enough. You must always run a sync before reboot to make blockdev happy.
Andrea Arcangeli
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