On 28/03/2008, David Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 04:26:16PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > > All were tested within the same time: 50 seconds. Details: the machine > > being tested was connected to a "reporter" machine via plain crossover > > cable, the reporter had a TCP server and the tested machine had a TCP > > client that run a tight loop of IO operations, single threaded, randomly > > choosing between creating files and directories, appending to them and > > changing (a random amount of data in a random position) them, then > > sending to the server a description (log) of each IO operation after it > > has been done. These were several Python scripts I wrote. > > Our of curiosity, if you call fsync on some subset of the files > after creating them, do they all the files on which fsync completed > exist after the fsck?
It should be easy to check, but I don't have the hardware any more so I can't. For what it's worth, files were opened and closed for the duration of the operations. I agree that fsync-ing files should make them more persistent. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
