I think the original point of NFS being better WRT data making it to the
disk was that :
NFS follows the SYNC-ON-CLOSE semantics. You will not see an explicit
fsync() being called
by the tar...
-- Sanjeev.
Frank Batschulat (Home) wrote:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:25:36 +0200, Roch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
You tell me ? We have 2 issues
can we make 'tar x' over direct attach, safe (fsync)
and posix compliant while staying close to current
performance characteristics ? In other words do we
have the posix leeway to extract files in parallel ?
why fsync(3C) ? it is usually more heavy weight then
opening the file with O_SYNC - and both provide
POSIX synchronized file integrity completion.
---
frankB
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