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Re: Making fsync() optional
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Richard M. Stallman |
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Re: Making fsync() optional |
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Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:01:29 -0400 |
> It seems really dumb if there is no way for the CPU to tell the disk,
> "Write these blocks now, and tell me when you're done."
There is a way, but when the drive reports that it has written the
blocks it may just have stored them in its write cache.
How stupid, to make a feature like that not work!