[plug] backup script

[Cameron Patrick]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:03:18PM +0800, Trevor Phillips wrote:
| On Tuesday 25 November 2003 16:47, Craig Ringer wrote:
| >
| > In fact, I'm currently running:
| >
| > # sync && sync && sync && \
| 
| Something I've always been meaning to ask - is there ANY reason to do more 
| than one sync? I mean, one sync flushes filesystem buffers, so is there any 
| reason to do it multiple times in a row?

AIUI the theory goes that if you sync a few times, by the time the third
one has returned the buffers will actually have been written to disc.
Something like that, anyway.

Cameron.

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