Re: sync ?
On 27 Sep 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> Mathieu Guillaume <mat@via.ecp.fr> writes:
>
> > As of today's upgrade, I can't find /bin/sync (nor any sync somewhere else
> > for that matter).
> > I don't know in which package it was supposed to be, but could we please
> > get it back ? It _is_ useful.
>
> It's now in fileutils 3.16-5. It used to be in util-linux, but was
> removed upstream.
I must say that I prefer the /bin/sync that used to be in
util-linux: it was only 380 bytes and it was statically linked. The
one in fileutils is 4484 bytes, and compiled against libc6.
I have always thought that it's useful to have such a small
`sync', to be able to use it even if part of the filesystem is
corrupt.
--
Juan Cespedes
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