Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:17:45 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: adding proper O_SYNC/O_DSYNC, was Re: O_DIRECT and barriers |
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 09:06:35AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > On 08/28/2009 08:46 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> - given that our current O_SYNC really is and always has been actuall >> Posix O_DSYNC > > If this is true, then this proposal would work, yes.
I'll put it on my todo list. While reading through the Posix specs I came up with some questions that you might be able to answer:
- O_RSYNC basically means we need to commit atime updates before a read returns, right? It would be easy to implement it in a slightly suboptimal fashion, but is there any point?
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