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List:       qemu-devel
Subject:    Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ide.c make write cacheing controllable by
From:       Chris Wedgwood <cw () f00f ! org>
Date:       2008-02-26 1:16:39
Message-ID: 20080226011639.GA20401 () puku ! stupidest ! org
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:50:40PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> On Linux (and other host OSes), fdatsync() and fsync() don't always
> commit data to hard storage; it sometimes only commits it to the hard
> drive cache.

That's a filesystem bug IMO.  People should be able to use f[data]sync
with some level onf confidence or else it's basically pointless.


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