From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:53:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from moving-picture.com (mpc-26.sohonet.co.uk [193.203.82.251]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l0OGr2qw026218 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:53:05 -0800 Received: from minion.mpc.local ([172.16.11.112] helo=moving-picture.com) by moving-picture.com with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9kzB-0003GM-KA for xfs@oss.sgi.com; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:28:33 +0000 Message-ID: <45B78931.6030809@moving-picture.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:28:33 +0000 From: James Pearson MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: how to sync / commit data to disk? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: xfs@oss.sgi.com >> 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: James Pearson