> Carsten Otte wrote: >> Wrong. Due to caching, as correctly described by David Boyes, the >> system may change on-disk content even when the application is not >> running. Example: the syslogd generates a "mark" every 20 minutes.
John Summerfied wrote: > syslogd's mark message has nothing to do with caching. > > According to its man page, "sync forces changed blocks to disk, updates > the super block." > > If you don't believe (or trust) that, then "mount -o remount" is your > friend. You missed my point: From the file system perspective, a snapshot of an ext3 is _always_ consistent. No need to do remount, sync, shutdown of application or shutdown of the entire system. regards, Carsten ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
