From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o8270XqP190615 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:00:34 -0500 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 0FA6D43EC6 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail16.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.101]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 3VDVbl5UomNatFxd for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:01:08 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: deleting 2TB lots of files with delaylog: sync helps? 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