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From: Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Peter Gervai <grinapo@gmail.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: how to sync / commit data to disk?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:24:29 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1169591069.18017.143.camel@edge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070123165050.GA28720@tuatara.stupidest.org>

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 08:50 -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:16:59PM +0100, Peter Gervai wrote:
> 
> > This problem seem to have arisen in grub bootloader under Debian
> > linux (and most probably everywhere else): it must be sure that the
> > copied files are there, and can be addressed by C/H/S and modified
> > there, at the given sector address.
> 
> grub is broken
> 
> this comes up all the time, there are various work-arounds but it
> doesn't change the fact that GRUB IS BROKEN
> 
> it would be nice if someone would just address it from that end
> 
> > xfs_freeze -f
> > sync
> > xfs_freeze -u
> 
> sync before freeze (actually, I'm not sure a sync there is necessary
> but it can't hurt)

Its not necessary (would be a bug if so).

FWIW, this hack can be better achieved in a filesystem independent way
by doing a remount,ro ... remount,rw instead of freeze/thaw.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-23 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-23 15:16 how to sync / commit data to disk? Peter Gervai
2007-01-23 15:58 ` Geir A. Myrestrand
2007-01-23 16:08 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-23 20:33   ` Peter Gervai
2007-01-23 21:43     ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-24  6:21     ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-01-23 16:50 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-01-23 22:24   ` Nathan Scott [this message]
2007-01-23 22:58     ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-01-23 16:58 ` Iustin Pop
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-24 16:28 James Pearson

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