On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 10:02:48PM -0600, Phil Carns wrote: > Hi Vish, > > The data is likely to still be in cache (in addition to on disk) > following an fsync, if that is what you mean. The fsync just makes > sure that any data that was cached is also durable on disk; it > doesn't remove it from the cache.
Does ext4 still flush the entire file system when doing a sync on a specific file? Was it XFS that would treat "flush this file" as "flush just this file" ? ==rob -- Rob Latham Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Lab, IL USA _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
