What does sync() _really_ do?

[Paul Chamberlain]

dkeisen at Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
>Is unmounting a filesystem an easier way than doing enough reads from 
>other parts of the disk to overwrite all of the buffers in the cache?

I thought that it would have occurred to you while you
were typing that, to try and define "enough".

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