On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :> files sitting in unflushed disk caches and you reboot, those files are
> :> lost. Softupdated just guarantees that the disk will be in a stable
> :> state after a crash, not that all data written before the crash will be
> :> available.
> :>
> :
> :Soft updates guarantees that when an fsync() is done, it's on disk...
>
> Actually.... it doesn't. I wish it did. All softupdates does is
> guarentee that the on-disk image is stable, it doesn't guarentee
> that the on-disk image has been synchronized to what the program
> thinks it has written to the file.
According to kirk FSYNC() does the right thing and 'sync()' doesn't.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
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