I want to draw attention to this bug again.
We are now running into this problem on Maemo 5, which is using ubifs as
its root filesystem. Not syncing 'properly' on ubifs leads to
zero-length files, etc, very much like on ext4.
While the discussions rage about how fsync is not what applications
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.25
Severity: normal
Below is part of the output of stracing dpkg when installing a package. As
you can see it opens the file without O_SYNC and renames it without calling
fsync() first. This means that a reboot during the period for which write-
back caching is
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Russell Coker wrote:
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.25
Severity: normal
Below is part of the output of stracing dpkg when installing a package. As
you can see it opens the file without O_SYNC and renames it without calling
fsync() first. This means that a reboot during
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