> Jeff Mogul had a paper about the benefits of 'sync'ing incremental a > couple of usenixes ago. As i recall, it was a very good paper. Jeffrey C. Mogul, "A Better Update Policy", WRL Research Report 94/4, April 1994. You can ftp a postscript version from gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/WRL/WRL-TR-94.4.ps.