Also sprach Pavel Machek:
} 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
}
} Well, maybe O_SYNC is so rare that slowdown might be acceptable.
}
I wouldn't count on that. If my failed patches were any indication, it's
heavily used by apps like Netscape...
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