Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: How many times do you 'sync'? - (nf) Message-ID: <2481@fortune.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 07:03:27 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2481 Posted: Wed Feb 8 07:03:27 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 02:05:24 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 18 #R:nbs-amrf:-17800:fortune:15100010:000:477 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 UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphins Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065