Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:55:25 +0000 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10 |
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Hi,
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:49:37PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 02, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> wrote: > > >2.2 O_SYNC is actually broken too --- it doesn't sync all metadata (in > >particular, it doesn't update the inode), but I'd rather fix that for > >2.4 rather than change 2.2, as the main users of O_SYNC, databases, > >are writing to preallocated files anyway. > What about fsync(2)? Will it update metadata too?
Yes --- fsync has never had that problem.
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