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SubjectRe: O_SYNC: How well do we support it?
Hi,

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:53:04 -0500, Peter Rival <frival@zk3.dec.com>
said:

> I've run into what appears to be a problem with Linux's handling of
> the O_SYNC flag to open() that has left some of my non-believing
> colleagues, er, snickering. The basic essence of the story is that it
> appears that all file IO is done asynchronously.

The filesystem write path used by ext2 has been completely rewritten
in the 2.3 kernels, and we are still to fix O_SYNC to work with the
new scheme. Don't worry, it is on the pre-2.4 todo list!

--Stephen

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