In message <20070220213014.GC5264@nifty>, Valerie Henson writes: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:20:21AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > And POSIX also states that sync() is only required to schedule the > writes, but may return before the actual writing is done. Looks like One more reason to form a group to discuss POSIX updates/changes (as per LSF last week). > the only way you can guarantee data is on-disk according to POSIX is > to reboot the system after every synchronous write. Man, we file > systems developers sure have it easy! No need to be that extreme. :-) It should be enough to just unmount all file systems, unload all fs and disk drivers, then reload+remount everything. No? > -VAL Erez. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
