On Wed, March 18, 2009 11:59, Richard Elling wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> As it happens, current versions of my own application should be safe >> from this Linux filesystem bug, but older versions are not. There is >> even a way to request fsync() on every file close, but that could be >> quite expensive so it is not the default. > > Pragmatically, it is much easier to change the file system once, than > to test or change the zillions of applications that might be broken.
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