On February 15, 2019 9:44:50 AM PST, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> On February 15, 2019 9:13:10 AM PST, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>wrote:
>>> I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't be panicking for
>sync_file_range
>>> failure, period.
>
>> With some flags it's strictly required, it does"eat"errors depending
>on the flags. So I'm not sure I understand?
>
>Really? The specification says that it starts I/O, not that it waits
>around for any to finish.
That depends on the flags you pass in. By memory I don't think it eats an error with our flags in recent kernels, but
I'mnot sure.
Andres
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