- atime updates were not being synced.
ffs_sync:
- In some cases the sync vnode was acting like now dead /usr/sbin/update.
It was examining vnodes that it should have ignored.
- It would find dirty inodes and try to flush them. Often ffs_fsync()
cheerfully ignored the flush request due to the fsync bug. Such inodes
remained dirty and were repeatedly re-examined by the syncer until
vnode reclaim or system shutdown.
- We were marking our place in the per-mount vnode list even though in
most cases there was not flush to perform. While not a bug, this wasted
CPU cycles because a TAILQ_NEXT would have sufficed.
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