Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:02:19 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: O_SYNC: How well do we support it? |
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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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