Re: Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

Greg Stark wrote:

>>>I'm assuming fsync syncs writes issued by other processes on the same file,
>>>which isn't necessarily true though.
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>>It was already pointed out that we can't rely on that assumption.
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>So the NetBSD and Sun developers I checked with both asserted fsync does in
>fact guarantee this. And SUSv2 seems to back them up:
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At least Linux had one problem: fsync() syncs the inode to disk, but not 
the directory entry: if you rename a file, open it, write to it, fsync, 
and the computer crashes, then it's not guaranteed that the file rename 
is on the disk.
I think only the old ext2 is affected, not the journaling filesystems.

--   Manfred