On 11/8/05, user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I'm not asking "why do I need to sync" ... I understand why I need to > wait, or issue a sync command. No problems there. > > What I am asking is, why is one issuance of `sync` not enough ? Why is > two not enough ? Why do I need to issue 6 or 8 of them ?
Softupdates is why. If you disable softupdates (tunefs -n disable /dev/whatever) you shouldn't have to worry about the sync delay any more. I do wish there was a way to force it to sync to disk on demand, though. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
