We have seen this problem, and our new updated initscripts package
re-enable the update in inittab.
Jean-Michel Dault
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> Hi,
>
> When I read /etc/inittab the I see that the call to update was disabled
> since it is obsolated by kernel 2.2.9
>
> however the buffers are never synced to disk unless I sync them
> explicitly:
> when I launch sync it lasts for 5 or ten seconds, depending on what I've
> done before.
>
> Since I've reenabled update in /etc/inittab it works fine, I mean buffers
> are synced because when I launch sync manually it exits almost
> immediately.
>
> Could someone explain me what is wrong with my buffers which seems to stay
> in memory without bdflush ?
>
> thanks.
>
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