Re: OT: fsync semantics (was Re: Linux kernel ....)

[Russell Nelson]

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 > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:12:00 -0500 (EST) , Russell Nelson writes:
 > > ext2 has always honored fsync.  You fsync a file, and its data goes
 > > off to disk.  You fsync a directory and its data goes off to disk.
 > > The only reason this surprises anyone is because the BSD hackers
 > > decided that fsyncing a file should also fsync the directory the file
 > > resides in.
 > 
 > What use is syncing the data to disk, if you can't
 > get to it after a crash?  It might as well have just
 > stayed in cache otherwise....

fsync the data if you want the data on disk.
fsync the directory if you want the metadata on disk.

What's complicated or difficult about that?

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