On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 20:07 -0700, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > Either there was something wrong with the flash drive, or something > else is wrong, but I noted that issuing the second sync command from > the second terminal while the fist sync command was being executed > resulted in the corruption of the flash drive file system (fat32). > Does the sync command serialize it's operation? The sync command just invokes the sync system call. It should always be possible to issue multiple overlapping syncs with no ill-effects. If sync(2) is really failing then there is a serious kernel-level problem. However it seems more likely that the corruption is being caused by something else, e.g. a physical problem with the pen drive or a flaky USB interface. poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
