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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

             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]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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