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- .th UPDATE VIII 11/1/73
- .sh NAME
- update \*- periodically update the super block
- .sh SYNOPSIS
- .bd update
- .sh DESCRIPTION
- .it Update
- is a program that executes
- the
- .it sync
- primitive every 30 seconds.
- This insures that the file system
- is fairly up to date in case of a crash.
- This command should not be executed directly,
- but should be executed out of the
- initialization shell command file.
- See sync (II) for details.
- .sh "SEE ALSO"
- sync (II), init (VIII)
- .sh BUGS
- With
- .it update
- running,
- if the CPU is
- halted just as
- the
- .it sync
- is executed,
- a file system can be damaged.
- This is partially due to DEC hardware that
- writes zeros when NPR requests fail.
- A fix would be to have
- .it "sync"
- temporarily increment the system time by at
- least 30 seconds to trigger the execution of
- .it update.
- This would give 30 seconds grace to halt the CPU.
-