Re: More benchmarking stuff...

[Matthew Dillon]

:> 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.

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
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