Re: [CORE] [BUGS] BUG #13350: blindly fsyncing data dir considered harmful

On May 25, 2015 8:52:33 AM PDT, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 04:37:59PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
>> What exactly is failing?
>> 
>> Is it that fsync is returning -1 ? Should we just ignore errors from
>> fsync if it happens in this stage? That might be safer than
>> determining which files should or shouldn't be fsynced.
>
>Interesting idea.  We could skip fsync -1 failures only for symbolic
>links.

Now there's already a thread on jackets about this.

Andres


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