Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:08:53 +0100 | From | Stefan Smietanowski <> | Subject | Re: Does Linux sync(2) wait? |
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Hi.
>>> 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.
That's 400KiB/s you know - pretty slow.
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