Re: imapd and synchronous writes

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:12:56 +0000 (GMT)


> My impression was that other filesystems waited until the disk
> controller reported back that it had committed the writes to
> non-volatile storage before returning. It didn't matter how the
> writes were ordered.

Depends when it crashes.

> I would if I knew how. What is it that am I supposed to test for?

Linux I guess.

Alan