Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:15:16 +0200 (CEST) | From | Igmar Palsenberg <> | Subject | Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x |
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> Sadly, you WILL still lose entries if the system crashes before fs metadata > has been flushed to disk. Unless the inode has the correct size stored, the > crap fsync()ed to disk doesn't make much difference.
Yep. I can't really think of a case where you wouldn't lose data in case of for example a hard lock.
> (This is amplified by dcache.)
I'm not that familiar with kernel internals..
To bring up that point : Anyone had a good advice on a good OS internals book ?? I'm gonna read the 2.2.x kernel sources, so I could use a good background.
Regards,
Igmar
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