[Gllug] re: qmail file-system syncing

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:35:01PM +0000, Richard Cottrill wrote:
> That said, synchronizing the whole filesystem does seem a bit of a 
> kludge at first blush.

Syncing the filesystem simply means flushing any cached writes for the
filesystem.  There's no such thing as syncing *part* of the filesystem
(unless you are using "filesystem" to mean "everything under /", as
opposed to the individual mounted filesystems).

-- 
Bruce

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