Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Apr 2009 00:44:44 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.29 |
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:50:40PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:02:26PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > > > If we crash during the rsync, the backup logs will yell. If we crash > > just after the rsync, the backup logs won't know. The data could still > > be gone. > > So have rsync call the sync() system call before it exits.
sync() isn't guaranteed to be synchronous. Treating it as such isn't portable. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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