Re: writing file to disk: not as easy as it looks

[Mikulas Patocka]

> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:46:40AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Yes. fsync() seeems surprisingly high on Rusty's list of broken
> > interfaces classification ('impossible to use correctly').

BTW where is that list.

> To be fair, fsync() was primarily intended for making sure that the
> data had been written to disk, and not necessarily as a way of making
> sure that write errors would be properly reflected back to the
> application.  As you've pointed out, it's not really adequate for that
> purpose.
> 
> 						- Ted

Well, what else do you want to use for databases? (where crashing the 
whole computer makes less damage than pretending that transaction was 
committed while it wasn't).

Mikulas
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