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

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 22:32 26-3-2002 +0100, Juri Haberland wrote:
>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'...

I believe this occured on a software raid 1 root filesystem.

And doing a sync before remounting may be called overkill but I have 
absolutely no objection to it being there. It can only do good there and I 
can't see how this could be harmfull in any way.

Cheers

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Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.