Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:43:57 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck? |
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On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 11:33:09AM -0700, L A Walsh wrote:
> My cases have been "vim" edited files. I'd sorta think once vim has > exited, the data has been flushed, but that's just a WAG...
No, that's not the case. Normally when files are written the data isn't not flushed immediately, it sits in memory (the page-cache) for some (usually) small amount of time.
If the data is critical applications should fsync (or similar) as required.
FWIW my standard method of shutdown is:
sync ; poweroff -f
sorta thing. I don't loose any data doing this, (at least nothing I've noticed).
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