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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:41:45 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 05:24:38PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > On this topic, it would make a lot of sense from the user's point of view to
> > have a way of syncing a single volume, how would we express that?
> 
> I have an idea, I'll put it in another message, since only two of us are
> likely to be reading at this point.
> 

Not true...

There's at least me. ;)  I have this thread flagged as "interesting".

Syncing a specific volume/fs is quite interesting also.  Maybe "sync
[--only-current-fs] [--fs $dev]"

Mike
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