Hi Damian,
On 30/03/2011 13:28, Damian Steer wrote:
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This reminds me of a discussion about sync (roughly flush to kernel) and
fsync (flush kernel buffers to disk) on linux, triggered by firefox [1]
many moons ago. In that discussion I recall one of the reasons for
avoiding fsync was to preserve laptop battery. [2]
Thanks for the pointers - interesting discussion. You are right that
one motivation was to preserve laptop battery by not spinning up an idle
disk. Personally, I'm not sure that's a good reason to ignore Posix.
In my tests the disk was already spinning and the laptop on mains power.
Brian
Damian
[1]<http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/05/25/fsyncers-and-curveballs/>
[2]<http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/>
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