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?
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