Mats Lofkvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ mdsync is ugly and not completely reliable ]
Yup, it is. Do you have a better solution? fsync is not the answer, since the checkpoint process has no way to know what files may have been touched since the last checkpoint ... and even if it could find that out, a string of retail fsync calls would kill performance, cf. Curtis Faith's complaint. In practice I am not sure there is a problem. The local man page for sync() says The writing, although scheduled, is not necessarily complete upon return from sync. Now if "scheduled" means "will occur before any subsequently-commanded write occurs" then we're fine. I don't know if that's true though ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]