Re: Does Linux sync(2) wait?

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Hi.

> > > No idea about NFS, but sync(1) does wait. When I push 500M out to my
> > > MO drive, the cp operation returns fairly quickly because I usually
> > > have more than 500M free memory. Then I run sync(1), which takes
> > > about 20 minutes before it returns.
> >
> > 20 minutes?!
>
>
> He did say it was a magneto-optical drive.

That's 400KiB/s you know - pretty slow.

// Stefan
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