Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:01:35 +0000 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] O_SYNC patch 3/3, add inode dirty buffer list support to ext2 |
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Hi,
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:54:24AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > I have not implemented O_SYNC in NWFS, but it looks like I need to add it > before posting the final patches. This patch appears to force write-through > of only dirty inodes, and allow reads to continue from cache. Is this > assumption correct
Yes: O_SYNC is not required to force reads to be made from disk. SingleUnix has an "O_RSYNC" option which does that, but O_SYNC and O_DSYNC don't imply that.
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