On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:23:23AM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:49:33AM -0400, Timothy Ball wrote:
> The FAQ entry[1] for this still holds. It's been revised to mention that
> this happens much less with the newer kernels
[snip]
> Perhaps running `sync` after saving the file and before testing
> what the changes did will help. :)
Just to be sure.. will running sync here help? I seem to remember
something about sync not flushing the log, and it being better to wait
for one of the periodic log flushes.
So if you expect a hang, and you can't remount ro beforehand, what actions
can you take to maximise data safety? sync? waiting? making a directory
and filling it with junk files to flush important stuff onto the drive?
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