Followup to: <20001104194937.E3423@wonderland.linux.it>
By author: "Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Nov 02, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> >2.2 O_SYNC is actually broken too --- it doesn't sync all metadata (in
> >particular, it doesn't update the inode), but I'd rather fix that for
> >2.4 rather than change 2.2, as the main users of O_SYNC, databases,
> >are writing to preallocated files anyway.
> What about fsync(2)? Will it update metadata too?
>
It better. fdatasync(), if implemented, is allowed to skip that
requirement.
-hpa
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