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<37651842.330557.1449661633526.javamail.ngm...@webmail09.arcor-online.net>,
Carsten Kunze  <[email protected]> wrote:
>Brett Lymn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Try using msync with the invalidate option, that should push the pages
>> out to disk.
>
>That works, thank you!
>
>The msync does now block and hence slow down the application, but the
>sync is an advantage in the special case I use it.
>But in general a sync should not be mandatory (for performance reasons).
>So isn't it a kernel bug that mtime is updated when pages are written
>back?

How often should it be updated?

christos

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