On 25 Oct 2012, at 2:04am, da...@lang.hm wrote: > But unless you are a filesystem, how can you make sure that the message data > is written to file1 before you write the metadata about the message to file2?
Wait for long enough for the disk subsystem to clear its backlog of write commands. A few seconds should do it. > right now it seems that there is no way for an application to do this other > than doing a fsync(file1) before writing the metadata to file2 No, as I've posted previously to this thread, you can assume that fsync() literally does nothing. It really is implemented as a 'noop' in many cases. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
