Agreed - msync/munmap is the only guarantee.
On 07/ 3/12 08:47 AM, Nico Williams wrote:
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:48 AM, James Litchfield
<jim.litchfi...@oracle.com> wrote:
On 07/02/12 15:00, Nico Williams wrote:
You can't count on any writes to mmap(2)ed files hitting disk until
you msync(2) with MS_SYNC. The system should want to wait as long as
possible before committing any mmap(2)ed file writes to disk.
Conversely you can't expect that no writes will hit disk until you
msync(2) or munmap(2).
Driven by fsflush which will scan memory (in chunks) looking for dirty,
unlocked, non-kernel pages to flush to disk.
Right, but one just cannot count on that -- it's not part of the API
specification.
Nico
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