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From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: What does sync() _really_ do?
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Date: 27 Dec 90 14:49:26 GMT
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dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
>Is unmounting a filesystem an easier way than doing enough reads from 
>other parts of the disk to overwrite all of the buffers in the cache?

I thought that it would have occurred to you while you
were typing that, to try and define "enough".

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