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Bug #1476

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We miss fdatasync()

Added by hasso almost 15 years ago. Updated about 2 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
tkusumi
Category:
VFS subsystem
Target version:
6.4
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Description

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fdatasync.html

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 #1

Updated by tuxillo over 11 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • Assignee deleted (0)

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

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 #2

Updated by tuxillo about 2 years ago

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