>Matthew Jacob wrote: >> For raw pattern testing Linux has a special challenge since you right >> directly into the buffer cache. There *is* a BLKFLSBUF ioctl that can try >> and force a flush but this probably ought to be written to use O_FSYNC- I >> think that the ll_rw code might use it or an fsync could be done... > >Linux' fsync() works only on directories, not on files.
Huh? That doesn't make any sense. The "f" in fsync() stands for "file". -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
