Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Question] Does the kernel ignore errors writng to disk? | From | Bryan Henderson <> | Date | Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:14:59 -0700 |
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>O_SYNC doesn't work completely on several file systems and only on the >latest kernels with some of the common ones.
Hmmm. You didn't mention such a restriction when you suggested fsync() before. Does fsync() work completely on these kernels where O_SYNC doesn't? Considering that a simple implementation of O_SYNC just does the equivalent of an fsync() inside every write(), that would be hard to understand.
-- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Filesystems
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