> Also, if I kill update it doesn't sync (e.g. I can copy whole directory
> trees around and wait multiple minutes and never see ANY disk activity
> until I do a "sync" manually). Is that feature in or out in 2.2.9?
It has been so for many years. That is what update is for - periodically
flushing disk buffers.
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