Sigh...I didn't see Digy's previous email which implicitly answers my question through his implementation, sorry.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Ben Martz <benma...@gmail.com> wrote: > With regards to the sync issue, I was puzzling over whether or not the java > sync method actually flushes the underlying disk cache or if it simply > completes the pending operations within the context of the specific file > stream (like System.IO.FileStream.Flush()) - I haven't been able to find the > answer so far. Obviously an actual sync of the underlying cache is a very > expensive operation that would be nice to avoid if possible, especially if > all we need to do is flush the pending writes to the file so that a > concurrent read operation can take place. Can anyone enlighten me perhaps? > > Thanks, > Ben >
