On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:20:25PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > This is only valid if the pre-allocation is also fsync'd *and* fsync > ensures that both the metadata and file data are on disk. Anyone > actually checked that? :) fsync() does that, yes. fdatasync() (if it exists), OTOH, doesn't sync the metadata. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/