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SubjectRe: Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync()
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Anyway, the idea of making fsync/fdatasync etc. safe by default is
> a good idea IMO, and is a bad bug that we don't do that :(

Agreed... it's also disappointing that [unless I'm mistaken] you have
to hack each filesystem to support barriers.

It seems far easier to make sync_blkdev() Do The Right Thing, and
magically make all filesystems data-safe.

Jeff




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