* Phillip Susi (ps...@cfl.rr.com) [101024 19:15]: > True, but that seems a bit of a contrived corner case. Most of the time > when people are upgrading, I'd wager that they don't have many gb of > dirty cache buffers already sitting in the cache. Though that does make > me wonder why there isn't a sync() variant that applies only to a > specific mount point. That would at least keep other unrelated mounts > out of the picture.
I quite often run dpkg installs / upgrades in pbuilder ramdisks. If the sync could be reduced to only that ramdisk, everything would be fine. Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101024172016.gq15...@mails.so.argh.org
