Re: dd question (from man page)

2014-11-19 Thread jd1008
On 11/17/2014 03:03 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 17Nov2014 13:22, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/17/2014 11:28 AM, jd1008 issued this missive: Man page says: ... fdatasync physically write output file data before finishing fsync likewise, but also write metadata There

Re: dd question (from man page)

2014-11-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/17/2014 01:28 PM, jd1008 wrote: Man page says: ... fdatasync physically write output file data before finishing fsync likewise, but also write metadata There is no explanation about this, as dd is supposed to be agnostic about the type of the data. If a

Re: dd question (from man page)

2014-11-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17Nov2014 13:22, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/17/2014 11:28 AM, jd1008 issued this missive: Man page says: ... fdatasync physically write output file data before finishing fsync likewise, but also write metadata There is no explanation about this, as dd is supposed

Re: dd question (from man page)

2014-11-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/17/2014 11:28 AM, jd1008 issued this missive: > Man page says: > ... > >fdatasync > physically write output file data before finishing > >fsync likewise, but also write metadata > > > There is no explanation about this, as dd is supposed to be agnostic > abo