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Re: Question related to XFS sync , especially fsync

To: Gopala Krishna <gopalakrishna.n.m@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Question related to XFS sync , especially fsync
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:55:53 -0800
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:44:22PM +0530, Gopala Krishna wrote:

> Is there any problem with XFS fsync? Why dimode is getting updated
> only during unmount? why not when I call fsync? Because fsync says
> it has to flush all meta dat to disk before existing.

it's probably in the log

if you must poke about under the fs like this, try doing
freeze/unfreeze (this is what i suggested to the grub people years
ago, but i'm not sure it ever made it upstream)


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