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Bug #1476
closedWe miss fdatasync()
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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
Added back in 74fa2560ac77f9db4a34b2a7c72450126fec4ed6