Re: files in /etc/xinetd.d become 0 byte size

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Florin Andrei wrote:

> It's been a long time since i started to always do "sync; reboot"
> instead of just "reboot". I've always felt this is safer.
> But you're right, the OS should do that for me, at the right time.
> Therefore, i've submitted a bug report to bugzilla.redhat.com:
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62025
> 
> Please go to the bug report and add your own comments (actually,
> everyone's invited to do that). I have a feeling that they will dismiss
> it as "XFS specific" or something like that, which i believe would be
> wrong.
> But if quite a few people will agree with the solution proposed in the
> bug report, maybe RH will fix the init scripts. ;-)

Ahm, Florin, I think that the conclusion of this thread was that even
multiple syncs don't help - instead you could just use 'sleep 30'.

The bug must be somewhere in the kernel and it would be nice to know,
whether it shows up with ext2/3 also or not. And also 2.4.18 just works
with the same init script without the need of just a single 'sync' or
'sleep 30'...

Juri