On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
The other choice would be to make sync [or the sync(2) system call, more precisely] blocking, so that it does not return until the buffer cache has been flushed and all dirty pages in VM have been written to disk.
I would love a flag to sync(1) that would also make it wait until all softupdate pending actions are complete as well and force them to happen immediately.
