On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:25:53AM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> >Compare file sync methods with one 8k write:
> > (o_dsync unavailable)
> > open o_sync, write 6.270724
> > write, fdatasync 13.275225
> > write, fsync, 13.359847
> >
> >
> Odd. Which filesystem, which kernel? It seems fdatasync is broken and
> syncs the inode, too.
This may be relevant.
>From the man page for fdatasync on a moderately recent RedHat installation:
BUGS
Currently (Linux 2.2) fdatasync is equivalent to fsync.
Cheers,
Steve
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