Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 21 May 2001 18:41:50 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> |
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Hi,
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:13:55PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> fsync guarantees the inode data is up to date, fdatasync just the data.
fdatasync guarantees "important" inode data too. The only thing that fdatasync is allowed to skip is the timestamps.
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