Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: > # /bin/sync --help > Usage: sync [OPTION] > Force changed blocks to disk, update the super block. > > --help display this help and exit > --version output version information and exit > > Report bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>. /bin/sync works above device drivers as it just sends dirty pages to device drivers and waits for writes to complete. Loop is a device driver. > On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 06:07:43PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > Device backed loops signal writes as 'done' _after_ lower level driver has > > signaled said writes as 'done', so device backed loops are journaling fs > > safe. Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
