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Re: grub fails to properly sync xfs
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: grub fails to properly sync xfs |
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Sun, 8 May 2005 04:30:51 +0200 |
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On Friday 29 April 2005 23:34, David Everly wrote:
> Under XFS, sync() does not suffice to force data from the log/journal
> onto the disk so that the raw device can see it. With XFS the data is
> only forced into the on-disk journal. Instead, one must freeze to force
> it to completely write it to disk, and then immediately thaw to allow
> continued writing.
We know it, but we have already decided not to implement filesystem-specific
system calls. We work around this problem in grub-install in a more generic
way.
Okuji