On 2010-08-03 12:56:28 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:33:28AM +0000, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Kernel-level buffers are taken into account. Application buffers > > aren't, the application has to take care of that. But if the > > Subversion fails to do that, it cannot recover from file system > > crashes, either, which is arguably a bug in Subversion. > > Subversion carefully flushes file buffers after writing revision files.
What do you mean by "flushes file buffers"? A call to fflush()? Or a call to sync() or fsync() too? Assuming the filesystem is on a remote machine (say, NFS), the necessary needs to be done on the client side: the NFS server cannot take into account the kernel-level buffers of the client. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
