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From: carlton@betelgeuse (Mike Carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: More Questions
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Date: 11 Feb 89 00:48:22 GMT
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In article <89208@sun.uucp> landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>In article <9583@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> carlton@betelgeuse (Mike Carlton) writes:
>>Anybody know how to force a 
>>"synchronous" sync that doesn't return until it is done?
>
>On some UNIX systems, doing two syncs in a row will achieve this, since the
>second one won't start (or return) until the first one finishes.
>
>I have no idea whether this is true on the NeXT or not, but it couldn't hurt.
>
Alas, it doesn't seem to work on the Next.  We created a directory on an 
optical, did a 'sync, sync, eject' and had a trashed directory on the optical
when we remounted it.  From this I assume that the second sync doesn't wait
on the first.

BTW, I got a couple replies on how to initialize an optical with only one 
partition; the magic incantation is: disk -i -t omd-1-all /dev/rod0a.

-- mike  (carlton@ji.Berkeley.Edu   or   ...!ucbvax!ji!carlton)