Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:43:45 -0500 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync() | |
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Anyway, the idea of making fsync/fdatasync etc. safe by default is
> a good idea IMO, and is a bad bug that we don't do that :(
Agreed... it's also disappointing that [unless I'm mistaken] you have
to hack each filesystem to support barriers.
It seems far easier to make sync_blkdev() Do The Right Thing, and
magically make all filesystems data-safe.
Jeff
|  |