Re: grub fails to properly sync xfs

On Friday 29 April 2005 23:34, David Everly wrote:
> Under XFS, sync() does not suffice to force data from the log/journal
> onto the disk so that the raw device can see it.  With XFS the data is
> only forced into the on-disk journal.  Instead, one must freeze to force
> it to completely write it to disk, and then immediately thaw to allow
> continued writing.

We know it, but we have already decided not to implement filesystem-specific 
system calls. We work around this problem in grub-install in a more generic 
way.

Okuji