On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Multiple blogs and news sites are swamped with a discussion about ext4 > and KDE 4.0. Theodore Ts'o - the developer of ext4 - explains the issue > at > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781/comments/54. > > > Python's file type doesn't use fsync() and be the victim of the very > same issue, too. Should we do anything about it?
If I understand the post properly, it's up to the app to call fsync(), and it's only necessary when you're doing one of the rename dances, or updating a file in place. Basically, as he explains, fsync() is a very heavyweight operation; I'm against calling it by default anywhere. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
