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From: rone@ennui.ops.best.com (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "syncing disk...3 3" <- ?
Date: 17 Jun 1996 13:42:56 -0700
Organization: tech support droids on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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In article <4pv38c$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Vlad <roubtsov@uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> 	Just curious: what are these numbers that appear after "syncing
>> disk..." or whatever message when one does reboot ?
>The number of outstanding buffers that need to be saved to the disk.

What about when you get three numbers (3 3 1 done) versus only two
(3 3 done)?

rone
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