On 07/09/2013 01:22 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 07/08/2013 09:39 AM, John Reiser wrote: >> 1. Install a userid whose login shell is /usr/bin/sync >> (or a script which does "sync; sync") >> 2. Login as the sync user (twice, perhaps.) > > Running sync multiple times doesn't have any particular purpose on Linux. > http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSync Yes it does, because the rest of the system might not be quiescent during the first sync. The first sync disturbs the system with an impulse of activity. This may cause the rest of the processes to react in strange an wonderful ways, including creating many changed-and-unwritten blocks. The second sync cleans many of these. Of course this is a classic race condition which might never get resolved, but the probabilities are much more favorable after the second sync than after only the first. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
