Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 2005-03-09T13:06:38, Scott Beck <sbeck at gossamer-threads.com> wrote:
> I did another test with a drbd partition. In this test I copied the
> linux kernel onto the drbd partition and then I ran `sync` (which should
> make pdflush to wake up and flush all data to all disks). I did hear the
> disk writing after I ran this. I then unplugged the system. After it
> boots up again I am missing 54 files from that linux kernel I copied, a
> total of 2k of data.
I forgot to mention something important here. The "sync" call triggers a
sync, but is actually _asynchronous_, ie that it returns doesn't mean
the sync is _finished_.
Duh. My bad. Sorry.
Admittedly, the sync man page is also less-than-helpful.
You need to actually wait for the sync to have finished, or call fsync()
on the files themselves (which _is_ synchronous).
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>
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