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From: dave@qtlon.UUCP
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Subject: Re: How many times do you "sync"?
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Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 09:51:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 17 09:51:45 1984
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>	Thus, when the shell command
>	"sync;sync" finished and you saw another shell prompt, you could be
>	confident that the first sync(2) had completed and all dirty blocks had
>	been flushed.

SUre, sure, but the second one (which would flush all the non
read-only superblocks again) wouldn't have .....

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