Re: Getting 'sync' to flush disk cache?
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From: Arjan van de Ven <hidden>
Date: 2006-08-14 19:35:57
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On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:39 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
So... has anybody given any thought to enabling fsync(2), fdatasync(2), and sync_file_range(2) issuing a [FLUSH|SYNCHRONIZE] CACHE command? This has bugged me for _years_, that Linux does not do this. Looking at forums on the web, it bugs a lot of other people too.
eh afaik 2.6.17 and such do this if you have barriers enabled...