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

[Bernd Eckenfels]

In article <20040712195956.GA14105@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> 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.

Yes right, I was confusing that with networked filesystems with
commit-on-close semantics.

Greetings
Bernd


BTW:
I was stracing java, and it is enough to do "fos.getFD().sync();
fos.close()" on FileOutputStrea to get a fsync(fd) followed by close(fd).
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