Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cincy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!cbosgd!qusavx!cincy!jreuter 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 Article-I.D.: cincy.1171 Posted: Thu Feb 9 11:54:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 08:51:40 EST References: <200@iwu1c.UUCP> Organization: U. of Cincinnati ECE Lines: 16 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)