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From: jreuter@cincy.UUCP (Jim Reuter)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: How many times do you "sync"?
Message-ID: <1171@cincy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 11:54:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 11:54:30 1984
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When I first brought up our 11/60 running 2.8BSD, a hardware
problem with a DZ would cause the system to crash whenever a
DZ input interrupt occurred while the disk drive was doing some
part of a write operation.  This made for a less-than-single-user
system, and I was careful to wait until whatever I had done was
finished before typing anything.  I also typed "sync" after doing
anything important.  Eventually, the need to type "sync" after
everything became a nervous reaction, even after the hardware
was fixed.  Csh to the rescue!  A simple

	alias sync "Go suck an egg!"

has cured me.

	Jim Reuter
	(decvax!cincy!jreuter)