Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?

[Bernd Eckenfels]

In article <20040710184357.GA5014@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> No, that's not the case.  Normally when files are written the data
> isn't not flushed immediately, it sits in memory (the page-cache) for
> some (usually) small amount of time.

Does that mean, that closing a tempfile and then renaming  the file is not 
a reliable way to tell, that the data  is persited? I usually use a atomic
rename to have a point from which on I can tell if the data is complete
and persisted.

I thought close() has  fsync() semantics?

Greetings
Bernd
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