On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> wrote: > > 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! > > Which is odd because I've used sync() while copying large amounts of > data and the sync() completes while the copying is going on steadily. > It only waits for the currently dirty buffers to be written, not for any > buffers that get dirtied later. At least it used to.
Maybe. Of course if I happened to have 500M of dirty buffers on the flash device that could take a long time to be written and give a result that's pretty close to my first impression. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- 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/201103190034.04057.russ...@coker.com.au
