On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:50:29AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: > I repeated the test without the sync, but waited 15 minutes after > creating the new file before killing the power. When the system came > up, I got fsck errors that were fixed, and the new file I created 15 > minutes before pulling the plug was not present. Whether this is > intentional or a bug, I agree with David Holland -- it's wrong and > should be fixed.
I disagree. It is exactly why I use FFS with -o async -- to get a disk backed storage, that doesn't waste resources, if everything fits into memory, but falls gracefully otherwise. Joerg
