Re: how to sync / commit data to disk?

James Pearson
2007-01-24T16:53:11Z

>> 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.

This is the way that I do it - based on info in an earlier posting on
this list:

<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=112096901910385&w=2>

James Pearson