rhia...@falu.nl (Rhialto) writes: >Can I at least hope that if fsync() returns an error, and the device >doesn't recover, that next attempts to fsync() keep reporting the error?
No. The data is lost and the next fsync will only report a failure if the
new fsync operation fails. Even worse, if the write error includes metadata
then the filesystem may panic if it tries to read and interpret the data.
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