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    SubjectRe: Linux-2.4.0-test10
    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:
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    > >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.

    --Stephen
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