Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Kevin Liao" <> | Subject | Writing files to remote storage | Date | Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:17:50 +0800 |
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Dear all,
I don't know whether it's proper to post such a problem in this mailing list, but I guess someone here could help me...
If I mount a remote linux partition through smb or nfs and write one file to that partition. How could I make sure that that file is really written to the remote disk successfully? I know that some cache mechanisms existed in linux kernel. So I guess there may be two possibilities as below:
1. After the call write() returns successfully, the file has been actually in the local cache and then submit to remote cache later. 2. After the call write() returns successfully, the file has been actually in the remote cache and then submit to remote disk later.
Then, no matter which one of the above two situations happens, the data is not yet written to the physical storage at that time, right? Should I need to call fsync() each time after calling write()? Thanks a lot!
Regards, Kevin
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