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SubjectRe: [Question] Does the kernel ignore errors writng to disk?
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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.

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Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose CA Filesystems

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