On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:00:57PM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > Just to weigh in here, I think that you have the right behaviour > already. If an application wants to force this to sync the data to disk, > it should use fsync() after the rename.
Actually, it pretty much has to fsync before the rename (to ensure the contents are on disk) and possibly fsync the directory after to ensure the rename hits the disk. If you fsync after the rename, there is still no guarantee that a crash won't cause partial data on disk with the new filename, unless you assume the filesystem orders the writes so the rename happens after the data hits the disk. AFAIK most filesystems make no such guarantee. -- Bruce Guenter <br...@untroubled.org> http://untroubled.org/
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