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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: How many times do you 'sync'? - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 07:03:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 07:03:27 1984
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fortune!rpw3    Feb  8 02:09:00 1984


> We've got some code in the shutdown routine that prints out how many
> disk blocks are still incore waiting to be written.  It prints it about
> 20 times, and it usually says 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...

Why doesn't it say 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0...? Is there a block still unwritten?

(Maybe the SUPERBLOCK?)

Rob Warnock

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