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On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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.
Right. Python /applications/ should call fsync() and do the rename
dance if appropriate, and fortunately it's easy enough to implement in
Python. Mailman's queue runner has done exactly this for ages.
Barry
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