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* Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> [030412 11:38] wrote:
> Marko Zec wrote:
> 
> >- fsync() no longer flushes the buffers to disk, but returns immediately
> >instead;
> 
> Any system that does this should be flushed down the toilet.  Softupdates
> already breaks transaction semantics of FFS by breaking 
> link()/unlink()/rename()
> etc.

How does it do that?