On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Mikheev, Vadim wrote:
> to re-write smgr. I don't know how useful is second sync() call, but
> on Solaris (and I believe on many other *NIXes) rc0 calls it
> three times, -:) Why?
The idea is, that by the time the last sync has run, the first sync will
be done flushing the buffers to disk. - this is what we were told by the
IBM engineers when I worked tier-2/3 AIX support at IBM.
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