strange sync behaviour

Giuliano Pochini (pochini@denise.shiny.it)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:50:40 CEST


Try this on an unloaded system:

sync
find / -name something
sync

ok, now all directories are cached and no buffers have to be written to
the disk. Type again:

find / -name something
sync

Why the sync command make my HDs to work for 2-3 seconds ? find
shouldn't write anything on the disk, so what has it to update ??

Bye.

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