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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:56:11PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>
> > No it won't, since if you're using file descriptors there *is* no C
> > library buffer.  fclose() will, though, and then call close().
>
>
> Data sits in the page-cache though, and if you loose power before
> that's flushed you will loose data.  This is why fsync is needed to be
> sure.

Correct.

	-hpa
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