Ulrich Kunitz <gefm21@uumail.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> this discusses item 5.1 in Alan's list of outstanding fixes before 2.4.
>
> I'm using fsync to write out all dirty pages/blocks of a file in
> generic_file_write to get O_SYNC behaviour. Patch is included below. It
> is the wrong way to do O_SYNC? I've checked this and it seems to do what
> would be expected and it caused no harm to me.
It is just very very inefficient to do it this way, especially on file systems
that don't use page sized blocks. Fsync does a lot of work while searching
the buffer cache for dirty blocks. For page block sized it is a bit better,
but still rather slow. Implementing O_SYNC directly is preferable I think.
-Andi
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