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    SubjectRe: Linux-2.4.0-test10
    Hi!

    > The patch I sent fully implements O_SYNC (actually, it implements
    > O_DSYNC, which is allowed to skip the inode sync if the only attribute
    > which has changed is the timestamps) and fdatasync. It's easy for me
    > to make the DSYNC selectable via sysctl for full SU compliance, and I
    > know of other unixes that already do this --- you really don't want
    > existing database applications suddenly to start seeking to the inode
    > block for every O_SYNC write.

    It looks to me like times updates are upper-bound by once per second,
    no? So this should not be (big) issue.
    Pavel
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    I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
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