Re: Getting 'sync' to flush disk cache?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Aug 14 2006 - 15:33:31 EST


On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:39 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> So... has anybody given any thought to enabling fsync(2), fdatasync(2),
> and sync_file_range(2) issuing a [FLUSH|SYNCHRONIZE] CACHE command?
>
> This has bugged me for _years_, that Linux does not do this. Looking at
> forums on the web, it bugs a lot of other people too.

eh afaik 2.6.17 and such do this if you have barriers enabled...

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