On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> wrote: > > On a machine with lots of RAM (== disk cache...) and high I/O load, you > > don't want to do a (global!) sync(). This can totally kill the machine > > for 20min or more and is a big no go. > > > > -- vbi > > Then don't use the option. It should definetly be an option:
It's a pity that there is no kernel support for synching one filesystem (or maybe a few filesystems). I recently had a situation where I was doing a backup to a USB flash device and I decided to install some Debian packages. The sync() didn't complete until the backup completed because the write-back buffers were never empty! If dpkg had only sync'd the filesystems used for Debian files (IE ones on the hard drive) then the package install would have taken a fraction of the time and I could have used the programs in question while the backup was running. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103181011.08741.russ...@coker.com.au
