Re: backup tools ought to ensure created backups are durable

On 3/28/16 11:03 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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> That should work yeah. And given that we already use that check in other
> places, it seems it should be perfectly safe. And as long as we only do
> a WARNING and not abort if the fsync fails, we should be OK if people
> intentionally store their backups on an fs that doesn't speak fsync (if
> that exists), in which case I don't really think we even need a switch
> to turn it off.

I'd even go so far as spitting out a warning any time we can't fsync 
(maybe that's what you're suggesting?)
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