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Subject: Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
> First, unless you call fsync() before close() and your OS and/or drive ha=
rdware isn't being deceptive when fsync() returns about whether the bits ha=
ve made it to permanent storage, then you might be surprised at just how lo=
ng the unwritten buffers containing the last updates to the file data take =
to get properly flushed to disk.

Nice hint! Thank you! :-)

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CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info