Request for review: do not use --sync with df during sanity check

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 17:35 Wed 04 May     , Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can someone please review the following webrev?
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~omajid/webrevs/no-sync/01/
> 
> It modifies the sanity check (under linux) to use df without --sync when 
> it computes the free space. This is what is done in the solaris case. 
> The accuracy gained by using --sync is probably not worth the 
> performance loss caused by flushing disk buffers.
> 
> The patch was originally written by Andrew John Hughes 
> (ahughes at redhat.com) and we have had this in icedtea6 for almost a year now.
> 
> Thanks,
> Omair

Let's see if you do better than I did...

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2010-June/003056.html
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