On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Russell Coker <russ...@coker.com.au> wrote: >> Then don't use the option. It should definetly be an option: > > It's a pity that there is no kernel support for synching one filesystem (or > maybe a few filesystems).
That'd be only a partial work around. Even with a single fs one big sync can be bad. > I recently had a situation where I was doing a backup to a USB flash device > and I decided to install some Debian packages. The sync() didn't complete > until the backup completed because the write-back buffers were never empty! Didn't dpkg stop using sync? Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=sjgv2n_otcrgymw8zvqo0pgd9zz_1+dquu...@mail.gmail.com
