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Re: Will the 'sync' system call cause system crashe
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Will the 'sync' system call cause system crashe |
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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:03:44 -0600 |
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According to qhlonline on 7/1/2009 12:51 AM:
> Hi, all:
> I have made a test to fill a disk partion with small files and then
remove some of them to create a large file. The program will run with some
operations of partion umount, format(mkfs) and mount. This test program
didn't always runs well, some times it will cause the computer death.
If your system crashes during a call to sync(), then that is a bug in your
kernel and not in the application that called sync. We cannot help you on
this list, other than to suggest that you file a bug report to the kernel
folks.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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