Re: Probs with MinixFS

[Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>]

Hi there!

|>I have a really big problem with MinixFS. It is the writing cache that
|>Minix uses. How can I force the writing of the cache?? It already took
|>more that 15 minutes and even longer before some writing was done.
|>
|>This is specially bad when I want to turn the Computer off. I never
|>know if the cache is written or not. 
|>
|>In older versions of Minix the cache was organized in an own process, 
|>there it was enough to call ps in a shell or Xcontrol, then all entries
|>were written, but this does not help anymore.
|>
It would be much easiert to help if we knew what version of mint and
minixfs your are using. With the newest MH-Mint, there is an update daemon
which normally flushes the caches every 5 seconds, at least with a
patched minixfs.

Ciao,
Ulrich