On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 07:42:43PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > That would matter if sync meant mandatory flushing all data to the storage > medium, but it doesn't. From a filesystem point of view it's an advisory > thing, something like "I wish you flushed buffers right now". It's defined as forcing actual writing on Linux. It doesn't guarantee that it'll be consistent (eg, XFS may flush to the journal rather than the filesystem), but it should mean that all cached data is on disk in some form. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
