Re: how to sync / commit data to disk?

[James Pearson <james-p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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