On 11/21/2013 12:45 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
I'm really concerned by this post on Linux's fsync and disk flush behaviour:Advertising
http://milek.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/linux-osync-and-write-barriers.html and seeking opinions from folks here who've been deeply involved in write reliability work.
With ext4 and XFS on plain/LVM/md block devices, this issue should really be a thing of the past. I think the kernel folks would treat this as bugs nowadays, too.
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