Bug#507085: beef up sync worry note

2015-03-03 Thread Stéphane Aulery
tags 507085 - wontfix stop --- Hello, jidanni is right. Sync can return before the data are fully synchronized in accordance with POSIX.1-2001. Quote of the sync.2 man page: According to the standard specification

Bug#507085: beef up sync worry note

2012-08-24 Thread Simon Paillard
Hi, On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 08:52:08AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: SP == Simon Paillard spaill...@debian.org writes: SP Do you have a reference for a kernel bug regarding sync() returning too early ? No. All I noticed was the device still blinking for a while. Can you reproduce data

Bug#507085: beef up sync worry note

2012-08-24 Thread jidanni
SP == Simon Paillard spaill...@debian.org writes: SP Can you reproduce data loss if you unplug the usb key as soon as SP sync() returns, while the key blinks ? All I'm trying to say is there may still be some risks involved in the current implementation. If I were to dare do such dangerous

Bug#507085: beef up sync worry note

2012-08-23 Thread Simon Paillard
tag 507085 +moreinfo thanks Hi, On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:44:35AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.13-2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man2/sync.2.gz According to the standard specification (e.g., POSIX.1-2001), sync()

Bug#507085: beef up sync worry note

2012-08-23 Thread jidanni
SP == Simon Paillard spaill...@debian.org writes: SP Do you have a reference for a kernel bug regarding sync() returning too early ? No. All I noticed was the device still blinking for a while. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#507085: beef up sync worry note

2008-11-27 Thread jidanni
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.13-2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man2/sync.2.gz According to the standard specification (e.g., POSIX.1-2001), sync() schedules the writes, but may return before the actual writing is done. However, since version 1.3.20 Linux