From: James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: how to sync / commit data to disk?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:28:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B78931.6030809@moving-picture.com> (raw)
>> 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
next reply other threads:[~2007-01-24 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-24 16:28 James Pearson [this message]
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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
2007-01-23 22:58 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-01-23 16:58 ` Iustin Pop
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