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

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.

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