In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Valerie Henson writes:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:20:21AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:

> And POSIX also states that sync() is only required to schedule the
> writes, but may return before the actual writing is done.  Looks like

One more reason to form a group to discuss POSIX updates/changes (as per LSF
last week).

> the only way you can guarantee data is on-disk according to POSIX is
> to reboot the system after every synchronous write.  Man, we file
> systems developers sure have it easy!

No need to be that extreme. :-) It should be enough to just unmount all file
systems, unload all fs and disk drivers, then reload+remount everything.
No?

> -VAL

Erez.
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