lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2004]   [Mar]   [22]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Does Linux sync(2) wait?
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.

// Stefan
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 14:01    [W:0.037 / U:0.356 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site