Re: 2.4 has O_SYNC bug ?

From: Doug McNaught (doug@mcnaught.org)
Date: Sat Mar 22 2003 - 14:37:53 EST


Rob van Nieuwkerk <robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl> writes:

> But the strange thing is this: always after 30s the kernel performs
> extra writes to the CF. It seems it's flushing some kind of dirty buffer
> from the buffer cache. But there is not supposed to be any dirty buffer:
> all data should have been written already to the CF because the partition
> was opened with O_SYNC !

noatime?

-Doug
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