Re: splice/tee bugs?

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Jul 10 2006 - 05:02:34 EST


On Mon, Jul 10 2006, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > So it's find being stuck, this doesn't look tee/splice related at all.
> > Can you reproduce the same thing just by doing the find . > /dev/null?
>
> Hmm -- yes, I can. So you are right, it's unrelated to splice.
> Not sure what's going on...

Hmm duh, the one-in-five-runs should have run a bell (and I should have
read the trace more carefully) - it's the access times being synced to
disk. If you mount with noatime,nodiratime you should get consistent
times across runs.

So nothing unexpected there.

--
Jens Axboe

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