On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:15:48AM -0400, Moore, Joe wrote: > Posix doesn't require the OS to sync() the file contents on close for > local files like it does for NFS access? How odd.
Why should it? If POSIX is agnostic as to system crashes / power failures, then why should it say anything about when data should hit the disk in the absence of explicit sync()/fsync() calls? NFS is a different beast though. Client cache coherency and other issues come up. So to maintain POSIX semantics a number of NFS operations must be synchronous and close() on the client requires flushing dirty buffers to the server. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
