Re: fsync or fdatasync

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 05:33:18PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > Linux has had fsync for as long as I can remember.
> >
> > Maybe you have it confused with fsync() over NFS? The NFSv2
> > implementation on linux used to have "async" flag for nfs as default
> > - making it non NFS-compliant without reconfiguration.
>
> The fsync() call has existed, but in the kernel it didn't actually do
> anything is what I've been told.  -sc

I think that's just wrong.

I just downloaded linux-2.0.1 (from 1996) to check, and it _does_ fsync.
OK, so it does it pretty inefficiently, but it still does the job.




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