On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 1:30 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 1/3/21 10:25 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > The stuff is open source, if anyone is interested in getting this fixed, > please > > start reading the code and help me. > > FWIW, the source code is here: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-base/-/blob/master/parted_server.c > > If anyone has any clever idea, please let me know. > there are lots of calls to fflush without a following fsync(fileno()) from the fflush() manual page: NOTES Note that fflush() flushes only the user-space buffers provided by the C library. To ensure that the data is physically stored on disk the ker‐ nel buffers must be flushed too, for example, with sync(2) or fsync(2). i imagine this could cause blocking problems with fifos but i am just guessing. cam
