On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 07:04:15PM +0530, Chinmay V S wrote: > Note that SYNC/DSYNC on a filesystem(eg. ext2/3/4) does NOT issue a > CMD_FLUSH. The "SYNC" via filesystem, simply guarantees that the data > is sent to the disk and not really flushed to the disk.
While this used to be the case for ext2 and ext3 this has never been true for the modern filesystem, and has been fixed for ext3 quite a while ago. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
