Re: mv should call fsync before erasing source file

2009-10-03 Thread drwowe
ot even know there was a potential for a problem. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/mv-should-call-fsync-before-erasing-source-file-tp25725948p25733498.html Sent from the Gnu - Coreutils - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: mv should call fsync before erasing source file

2009-10-03 Thread Jim Meyering
drwowe wrote: > I was moving some files with mv from a hard drive to a flash drive. The > flash drive is very slow. The mv command finished and the original files > were gone but I realized the operating system still had a gigabyte or so of > data in RAM which was in the process of being written

mv should call fsync before erasing source file

2009-10-03 Thread drwowe
long in my opinion to leave a user's data in jeopardy. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/mv-should-call-fsync-before-erasing-source-file-tp25725948p25725948.html Sent from the Gnu - Coreutils - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.