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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Syncing inodes in 4.3 BSD (was 4.3 BSD VAX 11/750 does not seem to sync its disks)
Message-ID: <10950@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 14:40:33 GMT
References: <271@usfvax1.UUCP> <276@usfvax1.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 18
Keywords: Sync, In core inodes, etc.

In article <276@usfvax1.UUCP> brankley@usfvax1.UUCP (Bob Brankley ) writes:
>Let me rephrase this as a question.  Just how often is the kernal
>supposed to sync incore inodes that belong to deleted files?

As long as the file is still open, never.  That is, the inode will
appear `unreferenced' but since its i_count is nonzero (even though
its i_nlink is 0), someone is using it.

This is probably what is happening.

>... IF the machine crashes these files WILL BE truly unreferenced.

and fsck will remove them and everything will be happy.

(On the other hand, maybe your kernel has a bug.)
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