From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
To: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does Linux sync(2) wait?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:30:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1B54ub-00004H-OC@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1C8xa-5lk-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:40:08 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:
> Looking at 2.4 and 2.6 sources, Linux does appear to wait before returning.
> I'm especially interested if NFS data is sent to the server. (I want to
> be able to take a stable snapshot of a netapp volume.)
No idea about NFS, but sync(1) does wait. When I push 500M out to my
MO drive, the cp operation returns fairly quickly because I usually
have more than 500M free memory. Then I run sync(1), which takes about
20 minutes before it returns.
--
Ciao,
Pascal
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-21 15:31 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <1C8xa-5lk-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-21 15:30 ` Pascal Schmidt [this message]
2004-03-22 0:59 ` Does Linux sync(2) wait? Chris Wedgwood
2004-03-22 3:44 ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-22 12:08 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-22 14:27 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-03-21 10:31 Frank Cusack
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