Re: [Question] Does the kernel ignore errors writng to disk?

[Anton Altaparmakov]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> >O_SYNC doesn't work completely on several file systems and only on the
> >latest kernels with some of the common ones.
> 
> Hmmm.  You didn't mention such a restriction when you suggested fsync() 
> before.  Does fsync() work completely on these kernels where O_SYNC 
> doesn't?  Considering that a simple implementation of O_SYNC just does the 
> equivalent of an fsync() inside every write(), that would be hard to 
> understand.

Some file systems implement their fsync() function as "return 0;" so no, 
you cannot rely on it at all.

Best regards,

	Anton
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