Hi Goldwyn,
On 2014/11/4 23:52, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
Filesize is not a good indication that the file needs to be synced.
An example where this breaks is:
1. Open the file in O_SYNC|O_RDWR
2. Read a small portion of the file (say 64 bytes)
3. Lseek to starting of the file
4. Write 64
On 11/04/2014 04:45 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:52:22 -0600 Goldwyn Rodrigues rgold...@suse.de wrote:
Filesize is not a good indication that the file needs to be synced.
An example where this breaks is:
1. Open the file in O_SYNC|O_RDWR
2. Read a small portion of the
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 09:52:22AM -0600, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
Filesize is not a good indication that the file needs to be synced.
An example where this breaks is:
1. Open the file in O_SYNC|O_RDWR
2. Read a small portion of the file (say 64 bytes)
3. Lseek to starting of the file
4.
Filesize is not a good indication that the file needs to be synced.
An example where this breaks is:
1. Open the file in O_SYNC|O_RDWR
2. Read a small portion of the file (say 64 bytes)
3. Lseek to starting of the file
4. Write 64 bytes
If the node crashes, it is not written out to disk
On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:52:22 -0600 Goldwyn Rodrigues rgold...@suse.de wrote:
Filesize is not a good indication that the file needs to be synced.
An example where this breaks is:
1. Open the file in O_SYNC|O_RDWR
2. Read a small portion of the file (say 64 bytes)
3. Lseek to starting of the
