Re: Can we trust fsync?

On 11/21/2013 12:45 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> I'm really concerned by this post on Linux's fsync and disk flush behaviour:
>
> http://milek.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/linux-osync-and-write-barriers.html
>
> and seeking opinions from folks here who've been deeply involved in
> write reliability work.

With ext4 and XFS on plain/LVM/md block devices, this issue should 
really be a thing of the past.  I think the kernel folks would treat 
this as bugs nowadays, too.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team