Hi!
> > this discusses item 5.1 in Alan's list of outstanding fixes before 2.4.
> >
> > I'm using fsync to write out all dirty pages/blocks of a file in
> > generic_file_write to get O_SYNC behaviour. Patch is included below. It
> > is the wrong way to do O_SYNC? I've checked this and it seems to do what
> > would be expected and it caused no harm to me.
>
> It is just very very inefficient to do it this way, especially on file systems
> that don't use page sized blocks. Fsync does a lot of work while
> searching
Well, maybe O_SYNC is so rare that slowdown might be acceptable.
Pavel
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