Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix filesystem
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On 2000-10-13 xlfhf6hrs5o.fsf@neuromancer.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de said:
   >Hi,
   >The problem I am having is that I need a way of checking
   >to see if the buffer cache is clean(ie has been flushed).
   >Then if the buffer cache is clean then I need to mark the
   >filesystem as clean. I do not want to use fsck.
"sync" should flush the buffers.  Why don't you want to use fsck?

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