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Bug #1476

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We miss fdatasync()

Added by hasso over 14 years ago. Updated almost 2 years ago.

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VFS subsystem
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Actions #1

Updated by tuxillo about 11 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
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Hi,

Additional references that might be interesting:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=64875&cat=
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~eweiss/222_book/222_book/0201433079/ch03lev1sec13.html
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=23618&seqNum=5
https://lkml.org/lkml/1997/10/14/7

As far as I understood it, the main difference between fsync() and fdatasync() is that the latter does not require metadata flushing, hence it might require less writes and it should be faster.

Regards,
Antonio Huete

Actions #2

Updated by tuxillo almost 2 years ago

  • Category set to VFS subsystem
  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed
  • Assignee set to tkusumi
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