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Zhu Han commented on CASSANDRA-3250:
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On XFS, this is not a problem per the developer's response[1].
[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/xfs/msg07229.html
> fsync the directory after new sstable or commit log segment are created
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> Key: CASSANDRA-3250
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3250
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Zhu Han
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> The mannual of fsync said:
> bq. Calling fsync() does not necessarily ensure that the entry in
> the directory containing the file has also reached disk. For that an
> explicit fsync() on a file descriptor for the directory is also needed.
> At least on ext4, syncing the directory is a must to have step, as described
> by [1]. Otherwise, the new sstables or commit logs could be missed after
> crash even if itself is synced.
> Unfortunately, JVM does not provide an approach to sync the directory...
> [1]
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2009/03/don%E2%80%99t-fear-fsync
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